This is an exciting opportunity to purchase handmade, high-quality jewelry that has been featured on NBC Nightly News, in O Magazine, Vanity Fair, Family Circle and other publications. Prices range from $5.00 to $35.00 to include necklaces, bracelets, earrings, loose beads and more. Choose from a wide variety of colors and styles all made by hand from recycled magazines.

The event will offer on site recycling, FREE Alcoa Inc. recycling bins to the first 160 attendees (1 per household), recycling Art/Crafts Booths plus learn about how to recycle styrofoam at the recycling informational booths and bring your secure documents for shredding at a local Knoxville facility. Guess how many aluminum cans are in a huge can bail provided by Alcoa Inc. and win a prize!

BeadforLife is a socially responsible global organization, working with women, all of whom were living on less than $1 a day in extreme poverty. Like extremely poor people worldwide our members have experienced many sorrows and difficulties. Yet they remain strong, resilient, and hopeful for a better life. Based in North America and Uganda, BeadforLife has partnered with industrious women who make vivid beaded jewelry out of recycled paper. The 300 members of BeadforLife support almost 5,000 others to climb out of poverty.

“BeadforLife’s philosophy is that people want jobs rather than handouts. We focus on ways for people to leave poverty behind forever,” says BeadforLife Co- Director Devin Hibbard. “The beaders are incredibly hardworking, and every dollar they make goes into critical things, like sending children to school, paying for health care, and saving to build a home.”

The beaders’ work has been sold at thousands of home parties and businesses and community-sponsored events around the world. All net profits from BeadforLife sales are invested in projects that fight extreme poverty, primarily in three key areas: health, affordable housing, and vocational training for impoverished youth, and entrepreneurial development through micro credit for small businesses.

For more information about BeadforLife is found at www.beadforlife.org.

Join us for this fun recycling day! Learn about recycling, reusing and reducing, local recycling crafters and more