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Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010

By Drew

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Over two years ago now I had the privledge of traveling to Uganda with the social enterprise BeadforLife.  just recently I came across a short article I wrote detailing one day that we spent in the Namugongo slum in the capital city of Kampala.  In light of the BeadforLife paper bead necklaces we’ve begun to sell on the f4 website.  I thought I’d share my observations here:

Simply described as one of Kampala’s sprawling slums, Namugongo is a captivating place of displaced expectations and overwhelming hope and love.  On October 21st 2007 I entered a world both foreign and familiar forever changing my global perspective. (more…)

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