Kampala, Uganda


When you purchase a gift you want just the right item. Sometimes we spend hours languishing over “just the right thing” to get that someone special. How about for your next gift, you truly make a difference in someone’s life?


Brett and his wife became involved with Ugandan AIDS orphans in 2003 through a pastor who came to America to tell their story and seek support for their cause. Facing uncertain finances at home they committed to a mission trip that would change their and the lives of dozens of families in Kampala forever. You see during this trip God made good on his promise to provide. Not only for Brett and his family but for the winnowers of Uganda.

It is during this trip to Africa that Brett was giving some beads by a teacher named Ricky who mentioned a side project he ran in Kampala, a group of about 70 churchwomen, most of them widows, who made baskets and beads out of varnished recycled paper.


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All of our beads are hand made from recycled magazines, posters, and off cut factory paper from Uganda. The art of making the beads is taught to women, by women. The paper is cut, rolled, varnished and assembled through a process that takes three days from start to finish. Once beads are made, they are strung into jewelry. Because our beads are hand made from recycled materials, each piece of jewelry is uniquely different from the other.

Soon word spread here in the states about this beautiful jewelry that is changing the lives of those women in Uganda. When you purchase this jewelry you allow women who lived on the streets to maintain a home and feed their children.

To be polite, he took a look at some colorful and intricate beads he had brought with him from Kampala. Whoa, I thought. These are beautiful! Delicate shell shapes of yellow, turquoise and other bright colors were strung on simple strings. The last thing they looked like was recycled paper.


This is our most popular bracelet with approximately 30 beads woven together with stretchy string.


$19.95 + $5.00 Shipping

This traditional African necklace is made with stick beads that have every color of the rainbow accented with dark shiny filler beads and lays just at the collar bone.


$29.95 + $5.00 Shipping

This necklace is full of autumn and bright primary colors accented with black filler beads.

This lovely necklace lays just below the collar bone and has a metal clasp.

There are approximately 60 beads on this necklace.


$19.95 + $5.00 Shipping

All of our jewelry in the African collection are a one-of-kind, handmade creation.

Pictures are a representation of available colors.

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Our single strand bracelets have pink filler beads and a variety of colorful beads.

Each bracelet has approximately 11 beads on streching string.


$9.95 + $5.00 Shipping


Our Short Necklaces have approximately 30 beads and hang just at or below the collar bone.


$19.95 + $5.00 Shipping


Our Three Strand Bracelet is a great accessory to any outfit!

It has 3 separate stretchy strands that are joined together by one bead.


$19.95 + $5.00 Shipping