Wings for Tacloban —- June 23 – July 10, 2014

Melissa Schilling Art Projects, Fundraiser, Visual Storytelling

Soaring above your everyday struggles, free like a bird.


It’s an idea we’ve all wished could come true in times of difficulty and stress. Now, fueled by your generous donations, Artists Jamie Lloyd & Melissa Schilling will be able to gift children (and their families) living in the bunkhouses of the Tacloban disaster zone the ability to fly above their problems. Wings for Tacloban are imaginary art wings created by children for children.

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Travel Dates: June 23 – July 10, 2014

Wish List:
-3 Portable Bluetooth Printers
-Chalk! Chalk! and more Chalk!
–Roll of paper (48″ x 200′ Natural or White)
-8 packs of oil pastels or paint pens
-30 medium-large paint brushes
-3 pairs of industrial scissors

Why Wings?

It has been nearly 6 months since Typhoon Haiyan, the world’s biggest-ever storm to make landfall, struck the central Philippines – killing more than 5,200 people, displacing 4.4 million and destroying $547m in crops and infrastructure.
In Leyte Province, 70 to 80 percent of the area was destroyed. Tacloban, the capital of Leyte, where five-metre waves flattened nearly everything in their path, suffered more loss of life than any other Philippine city. Outside the town centre, in a hillside cemetery, city workers have dug a mass gravesite which stretches along 100 metres.

Much of Tacloban has been turned to rubble, leaving many survivors homeless and dependent on aid.

Surivor in Tacloban walks among the debris after Typhoon Haiyan

Visiting the city, it is clear that – despite the help of the international community – it will take a very long time for the town to recover.

About the Bunkhouses of Tacloban:
The bunkhouses are made of corrugated sheets, plywood and coco lumber and measure
8.64 square meters. 27 Bunkhouses in the San Jose District of Tacloban with water and electricity have been completed as of April 1, 2014. Another 66 remain to be built and equipped with basic necessities. Each bunkhouse has 24 units, although big families are given two units. The partition per unit was collapsed to accommodate bigger families.

We’ll be painting the inside main wall of bunkhouses with chalkboard paint in a variety of colors. Once dry, we’ll cure the walls and arm the occupants of the bunkhouses with chalk. We hope to encourage creative thinking and hope.

Close to 2 million families were affected by the weather disturbance, considered to be the strongest typhoon on record to make landfall. 30 countries have already pledged financial and humanitarian aid amounting to 2.366 billion to victims of super typhoon Yolanda.

march 8, 2014 – week 2 of the gardening class

fatatis 2014 Gardening Class

Today in the gardening class, we talked about environment, what it means, and about the importance of the environment for Haiti. After we organized an art course when the kids drew some plants and animals which is part of the environement. Each child made ​​a drawing and talked about what they put into their drawing and what it repressents for them, just to see what they understood about the class. At the end of the course, the children watered what they had planted in the first class.

 

Jodi a pou klas jaden an nou pale de anvironman ,kisa anvironman an ye ,tou sa ki fe pati anvironman e ki enpostans yo genyen pou peyi a . Apre nou fe yon bel kou desen avek timoun yo,ki baze sou anvironman an. Chak timoun te fe yon desen e pale de sa yo te mete nan desen yo a , jis pou we ke yo byen konprann klas la. Epi nou te fe timoun yo rouze . 

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winter312 2014 Gardening Class

13 children from different neighborhood in Port au prince gathered in Haiti Communitere last Saturday (first Match 2014) for the course of a 32 week program. The children and teachers met and discussed about what they will study this year and planted their first trees and plant: a moringa tree and lemongrass.image

Meet the Students!

Melissa Schilling 2014 Gardening Class

So proud to introduce all of our gardening students!

Thank you Robin Borrud, Lucho Jean, Delphine Bedu, Laura Goldfish, Daniel Tillias, Fanel Duce and the incredible Luc Rajepre for making this idea a reality (and cutting off my real age so I can pretend to be a kid a little bit longer!)

Read Further: http://projecthopeart.org/project-hope-art-center-at-haiti-communitere/gardening-program-and-the-art-botany-lab/2014-gardening-class/

We need cash donations so we may plant a permanent garden at the school where the majority of these students attend … we hope to install it 2015.
We’ll need about $5K so let the community collaborative idea engines begin revving.