My foot is trapped between this and that and I fall like a stone. I…
Torkin Wakefield
About the author
Torkin Wakefield is the Co-Founder of BeadforLife, a non-profit poverty eradication project working in in East Africa. Under Torkin’s leadership BeadforLife grew from a simple encounter in a Ugandan slum to a robust non-profit affecting over 60,000 people to date. Its programs focus on women and girls who are living on a dollar a day and offers opportunities for entrepreneurial training and empowerment through its Street Business School. Torkin has had a life time of humanitarian service and has started many organizations during her career as a social entrepreneur.
