Restoring Dignity and Hope

Registered Charity Number: 1144‍946

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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

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.

    Borntobeautiful, Uganda, Africa

    Mary

  • 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.

    Neelam

  • 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’

    Pooja

    (names have been changed to protect the identity of our students)

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I firmly believe with our rights and freedoms comes a chance to help others. Surely this is the least we can do?

Sarah Glover, Founder of Born to be Beautiful