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Background
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Beads started in rural areas because the poor women could not afford to buy expensive jewelries in the ,market. Beads are made out of papers like old calendars, fliers, manilas e.t.c
Requirements for making paper beads.
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Papers, scissors, office glue, needle or tooth pick, strings and stoppers, colorless vanish.
Papers i.e. calendars, fliers, manilas, e.t.c are used to make beads
Measurements are taken on papers or calendars.
The desired or measured size is cut from papers.
Showing papers which are cut after measurements.
Tooth picks are used to roll on the cut papers to make a bead.
A tooth pick is removed and a hole is created, office glue is put at the end to tighten the bead.
Finished beads from papers.
Materials like strings, stoppers are used in the process of making a paper bead necklace.
A string is passed through the hole of a paper bead to make the desired fashion of a necklace.
After putting the string through the beads, a stopper is put at the end.
Putting on finished beads.
Beads look brighter after putting colourless vanish on them. The colours of the beads are based on the colours of the paper. They are never painted.
Help Africa children receiving money after the paper bead necklaces sold.
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•Help Africa children are involved in making the paper beads at the academy where they meet every Saturday when in school and during their school holidays.
•Help Africa decided to take up the idea of making paper beads because of the challenges we were facing in terms of meeting medical care expenses, sports shoes and transporting the children from schools or their homes to the academy to play.
•We also want to develop the children's skills and build on their creativity as a way of preparing them for the future in addition to their formal education.
•When beads are sold,we give some money to the children as away of motivating them to participate in making them.
•They use the money given to them to buy whatever they want.
•All children shown in the above presentation are in Help Africa.
