Fiona Fitzgerald, our newest Personal Representative, signs her emails, "From the land of the sand." She lives in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates, half a world away from her native Australia. Fiona read about Paper to Pearls in a local magazine and immediately felt a connection to the project. "It sounded like such a wonderful cause, and when I went to the website I was convinced this was something I wanted to do. Many Western women are in the UAE because of husbands who are doing contracting work and we have a lot of free time while our children are in school. Raising money to help the women in northern Uganda is a perfect way to be busy and feel I'm doing something meaningful. And everyone absolutely loves the jewelry and the story."

Although P2P Personal Representatives generally operate as small retail businesses—buying wholesale and then selling retail and retaining the profits—Fiona has generously decided to return the majority of the money she makes to P2P. "The pleasure of this project is knowing the good it is doing for women in poverty, helping them to move from a state of need to one of possibility and opportunity. That's all the payment I need...and besides, this is fun!"

Fiona sent us pictures from one of her events. I particularly love the dancing figures from her sales table; they make me of think of the dancing spirit in all women and how my beaders have reason to dance again because of the open hearts of women like Fiona Fitzgerald.



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