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HALE KIPA KIDS AT MACY'S

ProjectFocus Hawai'i is a nonprofit program run by photographers Laurie Callies and Lisa Uesugi that provides a 12-week photography internship to at-risk children every summer. This year the focus is on foster kids from Hale Kipa. The internship is capped off with an exhibit of the children's photography at Macy's Ala Moana.

As a bonus for the kids, managers from throughout Macy's Ala Moana will take each child around the store to choose an outfit to wear to the launch party for the exhibit.

The exhibit will be on view to the public beginning Aug. 31, near the escalator bank on the store's third floor.

ON OUR RADAR

HANDCRAFTED UGANDAN BEADS CAN ACCESSORIZE ISLAND STYLE

When I lived in Mahalapye, Botswana, there was a nearby village called Serowe where the Tswana tribeswomen specialized in handcrafted beads. I always thought it would be great to import them to Hawaiçi as an ideal accessory for the way we dress.
Now Cheryl Bundy of Kaua'i has done that with Pepa Lei. But these beads come from another side of the African continent, northern Uganda, from the Acholi tribe. Bundy has been friends with the founder of Acholi Beads (www.acholibeads.com), James Pearson, since small-kid time.
Acholi beads are made of recycled paper that would normally end up in landfills. The beads are handmade by Acholi women who fled their homes to escape Africa’s longest-running war. Bead sales offer them an alternative to working in the rock quarries for $1 a day. Earrings, bracelets and necklaces range from $12 to $37.
We found them at Pepa Lei, a kiosk in Ala Moana Center, mall level, near L’Occitane. They are also sold at Global Village in Kailua and Kai Ku Hale in Hale'iwa.