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Gladys struggled to earn a living selling cosmetics door-to-door so she has recently started assembling beaded products for Global Mamas.

Gladys struggled to earn a living selling cosmetics door-to-door so she has recently started assembling beaded products for Global Mamas.

Gladys Adimer, Bead Assembler
Bead-Making Center (Krobo)

After she left school at the age of 18, Gladys Adjimer went to work for her mother Grace Joe, a bead-maker now working for Global Mamas. Initially, she was training to be a hairdresser but when her mother became ill she had to help out with the family business instead. Gladys likes cosmetics, so after a few years of working at her mother's bead workshop she tried selling make-up door-to-door. She still earns some money this way, but it's not regular income, so she has recently started making jewelry for Global Mamas. It's still in the early stages of her business, but she already helps to pay her mother's medical bills and support her brother, a trainee mechanic who lives away from home. Gladys is in Krobo and, in the Krobo tradition, she has taken the name of her father who works as a fisherman on nearby Lake Volta, the largest man-made lake in the world. When she was 16, Gladys went through the traditional ritual of Dipo, when girls are dressed in ceremonial dress and beads, dance and eat nothing but water and yam for 3 or 4 days as part of their initiation into Krobo womanhood.



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