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19" Handmade Single Strand Bead Necklace from Uganda
Handmade by a group of widows in Kampala, Uganda. Hupomeno has partnered with these women who were displaced from their homes in northern Uganda by a twenty-one year civil war. After fleeing on foot to the south, they have settled in Kampala, where the King of Buganda gave them land for what now looks like a refugee camp. Of the twenty-two women in this group, most are widows and some are HIV positive. A few are married, but their husbands don’t have work. These women and their families live in poverty.
The women work together to make these beautiful beads out of magazine pages. They cut the pages into thin strips, which they then roll on a needle and hold in place with glue. The beads are then strung onto a long string and dipped in vanish. They must dry for 3 days before being dipped and dried 2 more times. The process to make each bead takes approximately two weeks. When the beads have been dried for the last time, they are strung into the beautiful jewelry that you see in the images. The money these women make from selling the jewelry allows them to provide food, shelter, education, and medical care for their families.
**This is a recycled product so each necklace is different and as such the color will vary from necklace to necklace** |