PAINTING A BRIGHTER FUTURE FOR KENYAN WOMEN

Inspired by my visit to Kenya with my family in August of 2006 I developed a fundraising project, “Painting a Brighter Future for Kenyan Women” in partnership with The Boma Fund, bomafund.org, a Vermont based non-profit organization operating in northern Kenya. Since 2007 I have been creating a series of original oil paintings of the native pastoral nomadic people of this remote area of Kenya. Donations from the sale of the original artworks, and from fine art giclee reproductions of the images, benefit the women from these communities through The Boma Fund’s Rural Entrepreneur Access Program. The REAP program  provides grant money, business skills training, and mentoring to small groups of women to help them start their own enterprises, generate income, and become self-reliant. My donation from the sale of one painting helps to establish 20 new businesses providing income to 100 women.

After completion of the series, the entire collection of artworks will be reassembled for exhibition in Vermont and Washington, D.C.

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