Last night on the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric, I saw this moving news story and just thought what a great idea and a good cause so I just had to blog this most exceptional program.
Ben Schumaker started The Memory Project, drawing portraits of children living in ophanages in poor countries.
He said that he was very moved by a Guatemala man who told his story of his forgotten childhood since he grew up in an orphange and had no pictures of himself in his youth or even his family.
Ben set out to make a difference in the lives of these children and The Memory Project was born. Now he has high school students participating in the program drawing the portraits of the orphaned children.
It seems that the students doing the drawing become very attached to their subject especially when drawing their eyes.
On the back of each portrait, the artist's picture and a little note is attached and the whole project is laminated.
I think this is a truly wonderful project.
A little time and effort to give one child a life long memory as a keepsake to value the rest of their lives. It also gives MORE than you can ever imagine in the long run.
Below are the links to the news story article. There is also a picture documentary you can look at.
CBS News Story/Article
The Memory Project
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