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Holly Elkins
~mixed media artist
specializing in
expressionistic, multicultural portraits
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and link to the organizations that work to change those stories.


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As part of 2008 Rain Barrel Reveal, a project with James River Basin Partners, my painted rain barrel "Welcome the Rainy Season", will be part of an environmental education display at Borders bookstore in Springfield, Missouri.
Why are rain barrels important? 

 

"It is the rainy season in East Africa, brought in by monsoon winds.  Torrential rains fall and beat on the rooftops in Addis Ababa.  Water rushes through Kibera's open trench sewers.  Water races to channels blocked with flood debris and laps back frantic for a new path.  Water washes away soil, a finger grip for roots, gone.  And when the big rain season silences, gone too will be the water.  Drought's voice will crackle again. Water is not scarce in Africa; what is scarce is water infrastructure, a way to harvest what floods and then vanishes.  According to the IRIN of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, Kenya's capital city, Nairobi, has the capacity to provide for the water needs of 6-10 million people, over twice its current population, supplying each person with 60 liters of water a day if rainwater were efficiently harvested.  Today, only 21 thousand people are currently served by Nairobi's existing water system.  Add to the natural cycle of weather, global climate change, more floods, more droughts, more lives in jeopardy, and you have a totally predictable disaster.  The good news is that rainwater harvesting does not require billions of dollars; it does not require international conventions.  Connecting a pipe to a barrel, capturing rainwater when and where it falls, can provide water resources at the community level.  Rain is beating on the rooftop.  Listen to what it is saying."

 

§ 10% of the sale of Original Art from this website is Currently Donated to : §
Planting Peace ... providing children's homes & medical care
in some of the world's most poverty stricken nations,
including the Haiti De-worming Project.

Thanks to my patrons! Money generated from sales of Holly Elkins' art at ArtsFest 2008 supplied de-worming medication for over 600 children in Haiti through Planting Peace.

"An estimated 80% of the Haitian population is infected with intestinal parasites.... Intestinal worms can eat up to 20% of a child's nutritional intake a day.  With Haiti being the 4th hungriest nation in the world, no Haitian child can afford to have their nutritional intake depleted by 20%.  Ridding a child of parasitic worms can mean the difference between life and death."


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