recycled paper beads

Wordless Wednesday: paper beads

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Paper beads drying outside, Gifted Hands Center, Kigali, Rwanda.

Gahaya Links’s website is here.

Akebo kajya iwa mugarura.
A basket should be given to the grateful.
— Rwandan proverb

A storeroom of recycled paper beads at Gahaya Links, Kigali, Rwanda.

. . . And her voice is a string of colored beads,
Or steps leading into the sea. . . .

– Edna St. Vincent Millay, from “Witch-Wife“