Get Involved!
Purchase Bead and Handicraft Products
These items can be purchased from our website using Paypal. Click here to purchase items now.
The women receive 100% of the profits from these sales.
Each woman is encouraged to use 1/2 of the proceeds for current needs, save 1/4 for unexpected expenses, and use the remaining 1/4 for future plans whether it’s expanding her business, sending a child to the university, building a home, buying land, etc.
Host a Bead Benefit Party or Encourage Your Organization to Join our “Adopt 100 Necklaces” Program.
Each of these choices is a fun, exciting way for you and your friends, relatives, co-workers, organization or church members etc. to help the women beaders sell more of their beautiful products. You can become part of their sales team to help them be more successful in their business.
Click here to find out more about Bead Benefit Parties, or click here to read about our “Adopt 100 Necklaces” program.
Sponsor a Child
Please sponsor a child today and team up with one of the women beaders to help keep her child in school by paying for the school fees, uniform and supplies for this child. Annual sponsorship amounts range from $75 to $1,500. This represents a huge benefit to the beader’s family and represents another way to further support the beader’s efforts as she works at stabilizing her family’s financial situation through her business. Just click here to sponsor a child now.
Contribute Money for Our Programs
Financial contributions are urgently needed to help pay for our community outreach programs, to help provide emergency funds for the women’s families, to help our unsponsored children, and to purchase program-related “wish list” items. Almost all fund-raising and administrative time is donated to the organization, so your contribution can be used almost entirely for direct program expenses.
Examples of current PITWA “wish list” items are:
- Several sewing machines including an electric one for our tailoring program
- One new laptop computer with internet capability and a laser printer
- Funding for the initial rent on a more accessible retail store/classroom space
- Money to pay for a tutor for children who are behind with their schooling
- Several craft/classroom tables
- One additional paper cutter
- Many mosquito nets
Click here to view donation options or contact us to discuss other ways to partner financially.
Volunteer in Uganda or the U.S.
Do you have a marketing, financial, educational, health or skill-related or agricultural background that would be useful to the women’s groups? Can you take at least four weeks or more time from your schedule to visit us in Uganda, or would you like to work from your home in the U.S.?
Contact Malcolm at crazymalc@gmail.com, or Carol at pittekbeadparty@aol.com in the U.S.
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