("Battling Dragons" at Carnival in Jacmel, Haiti)Today I visited the Visionary Arts Museum to take in some mixed media collages for the gift shop and to check on the ceramic hearts for Haiti. I was happy that they purchased my collages, but happier still to see that there were only about 10 or 12 hearts left out of the hundred or more that I had recently brought in! Wow! It made me so happy and grateful to know that 1) people are continuing to buy them and 2) 100% of the money raised will go to the Arts Foundation for Children in Jacmel, Haiti!
One of the many things I adore about this foundation and the way Judy Hoffman runs it is that 100% of all money received by the foundation goes to help the kids. All of the people working to support the children pay their own expenses if they have to travel or eat while they are there. None of the money going to ACFFC is diverted for those kinds of related but personal expenses. $100 isn't a whole lot to a lot of people, but consider these facts from their website:
$60 = one month average cost for emergency health care for all 60 children
$250 = one month of art supplies for all 60 children
$250 = one child eats every day for a full year
$950 = approximate total expenses, full year, for one child (art, food, school, medical care)
$4,750 = cost for all 60 children, full program participation, for one whole month
$8,500 = cost to send all 60 children to school for a full school year
With the steady stream of tourists from all over the world who make it a point to visit this amazing and unique museum, I'm confident that the hearts will continue to steadily raise one dollar at a time for the wonderful and very deserving children in Jacmel, Haiti. I am so excited to start school just to get my students involved in this again.
Children helping children--what could be better?
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