BEADS mission is to enhance the status of women in the community and to promote environmental awareness with a goal of preserving natural resources. BEADS programs provide school scholarships for African girls, promote business development for African women and support conservation through education.
Ten year old Entito is a Maasai girl living in Kenya. Under her current circumstances, Entito will probably be forced into an arranged marriage at age 13 to a 30 plus year old man, be his second or third wife and bear 7 or more children.
BEADS for Education hosted our first Coming of Age Ceremony in the Kajiado District of Kenya without Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) on August 20, 2005. Women around the world commemorated this even...
It is Esther Tinayo’s coming of age ceremony. Esther’s mother is the midwife and the female circumciser. Esther is a BEADS sponsored girl aged approximately 13years and in 9th grade at Rombo Girls School in ...