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Restoring Dignity and Hope
Registered Charity Number: 1144946
Born to be Beautiful is a charity that teaches beauty therapy training and skills to victims of abject poverty. Our goal is to restore dignity and hope to lives devastated by exploitation. We currently work in India and Uganda. The courses are full time and taught over 2 weeks. On completion of a Born to be Beautiful course, our students are given a starter kit, suitable for up to 50 treatments, a uniform and a certificate. We then help each woman get work, go onto further education or set up their own businesses.
Recent News
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Cambridge Town Bumps Charity Cafe
This year’s charity cafe is happening on July 17th – 20th at 4pm-9pm on the towpath at 2 Fen Road. Home-made... Read More
Hackney Half Marathon
Megan Glover who is a volunteer on our charity ran in the Hackney Half Marathon in aid of Born to... Read More
HSS Employer and Volunteering Fair
Anglia Ruskin University arranged an HSS Employer and Volunteering Fair at the Cambridge Campus. We met some lovely students and... Read More
NSC Student Meeting
We were invited to talk to some fabulous NCS students on 15th February 2018. One of our Ambassador Nicky Shepard... Read More
Words from Students in Our Program
Before Mary (HIV+ student from Uganda) came on this course, she thought she was useless in this life and had nothing to offer her children, no way of making money to buy food, clothes or send them to school.
Neelam lives in the slums of India with an uncle after being abandoned by her parents when she was small. Daily she is told she is worthless, he is tired of her and he threatens to send her away to another distant relative, but says no one will have her.
When asked how she had changed since beginning the course. Pooja answered; ‘I have never been to a class before and I realised I liked learning. I have always been interested in beauty work but it was far too expensive so my parents told me I had to work in a brothel to help feed our family’
