Students Make Beaded Jewelry At Local Nonprofit

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Students learned to make beaded jewelry today at Hope for Healing.Org. These kids are being put to work with stimulus money. Today, we learned how to make beaded earrings, bracelets and necklaces. We talked about product development and production.

With the skills of beaded jewelry the kids now can make items for family, friends or to sell for extra pocket money. The sale of the merchandise will benefit Hope for Healing.org.

It's been a busy few days. Other skills learned so far have included weaving chair bottom, sanding wood furniture in preparation for repainting, jewelry making and how to rip material. The material will be used to create beautiful braided rugs. One is already started. When our director returns from her trip we'll add the finishing touches.

In the meantime, here are some photos of the kids at work making beaded jewelry and sample shots of finished products.

Students Learn Skills at Nonprofit Hope for Healing.org

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Students learned skills today at our nonprofit, Hope for Healing.Org. We have 4 students working with us for 6 weeks. This is a Stimulus program. Three started jobs yesterday. Another person begins work tomorrow.


The students will process in-kind donations and create inventory. Work on a recycled chair was started by a volunteer and juvenile offenders. Today, the chair was completed by a student in the work program.




The chair was sanded and given several coats of paint. Next, material that was tie-dyed by volunteers and other juvenile offenders was cut into strips. The strips were carefully woven to create the chair you see here.


When enough items are created we hope to have an auction and open house. Look for information here later this summer.

Thank you for bringing the donated items to us! We (and the kids) thank you.

Stimulus Funds Put Students to Work

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Greetings from Allie. Today was a good day at the ministry center. Through an employment program at a local college, we have three new staff members on board, two of which have been volunteering with us for at least two years. We will be getting a fourth person starting tomorrow. Yesterday, we received a fair amount of donated items and spent today sorting those, as well as finishing a woven-bottom chair. It's quite pretty; one of our new staff members worked on it and did very well with it. Tomorrow, more cleaning and sorting, and maybe some braided rug making! I'm looking forward to it!

A Great Day for Ministry

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It's a great day for ministry. The sky is clear and the sun is shining. We have some junior volunteers lined up to help today. It's going to be great. The kids have so much enthusiasm! We are going to be doing some weaving in between helping people and processing donations. I can't wait to get started!

Gayle