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In 2025 we delivered over 60 boxes to the Beads of Courage program.\u00a0 Our goal for 2026 is over 70 boxes!<\/p>\n
We\u2019re asking members to turn lidded boxes for children through the Beads of Courage program.\u00a0 Through this program children receive unique beads that represent procedures or treatments during a serious illness.\u00a0 For example, they might receive a red bead for each blood transfusion, a yellow bead for each night in the hospital, a star bead for surgery or a white bead for chemotherapy. Their collection of beads becomes a tangible record of their journey.\u00a0 You can pick up a ceramic \u201cBeads of Courage\u201d bead to be inserted on the knob of your lid at the AWA monthly meetings or request from the treasurer.\u00a0 Find out dimensions and more information below and at the\u00a0<\/span>Beads of Courage website<\/span>.\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n The club delivers boxes to the headquarters for them to disperse to children around the world.\u00a0 Questions?\u00a0 Contact Richard (Dick) Jones, AWA member and Vice President on the AWA Board.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" YEARLY PROJECT\u00a0 \u2013 \u00a0Beads of Courage \u2013 turned in yearly in October\/November In 2025 we delivered over 60 boxes to the Beads of Courage program.\u00a0 Our goal for 2026 is over 70 boxes! We\u2019re asking members to turn lidded boxes for children through the Beads of Courage program.\u00a0 Through this program children receive unique beads […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8524,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arizonawoodturners.org\/turning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9925"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arizonawoodturners.org\/turning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arizonawoodturners.org\/turning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arizonawoodturners.org\/turning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arizonawoodturners.org\/turning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9925"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/arizonawoodturners.org\/turning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9935,"href":"https:\/\/arizonawoodturners.org\/turning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9925\/revisions\/9935"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arizonawoodturners.org\/turning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arizonawoodturners.org\/turning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arizonawoodturners.org\/turning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arizonawoodturners.org\/turning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/arizonawoodturners.org\/turning\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/BOC-guidelines.jpg\")
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