Shopping cart is empty.

Browse Causes

Art for sale on this website supports these causes: (Click for a quick link or scroll down the page to view).

   Bridging the Gap, Kenya and East Africa
    Mad Vision, Madagascar
    New Birth Ministries, Honduras
    Mercy and Sharing, Haiti (Earthquake Relief 2010)
    Starfish Ministries, Haiti (Earthquake Relief 2010)

Bridging the Gap, Kenya and East Africa

Click here to watch video of Harmon Parker, featured as the Hero of the Week by CNN, Aug 2010.

After living in Kenya for years doing many projects ranging from the construction of buildings to the digging of wells to help the local people, Harmon Parker began building foot bridges over rivers that were prone to flash flooding and other dangers. The people had no choice but to cross the deadly rivers in order to get to health care they needed, schools for their children, and food supplies for their families.

The first footbridge was constructed in 1996, and by the summer of 2008 over forty footbridges had been built. Harmon involves the local community or tribe he is there to help, and his selfless efforts so far have saved hundreds of lives from drowning or death by crocodile. Bridging the Gap’s theme is “Building Bridges – Transforming Lives”.

One of our artists, Robert Kurtz, has been a friend of Harmon for over twenty years and has personally supported his efforts in Kenya during that time. With your help, we can give poor people in a distant land safe access to schools, markets, and health care.

Website: www.bridgingthegapafrica.org
Photo Gallery:




Next

Mad Vision, Madagascar

Click here to read our latest newsletter about Mad Vision going to France.

As a medical doctor and a professional counselor we are using our skills to promote physical, mental, and spiritual health and development in Madagascar.

We partner with the Malagasy people in service to remote communities with extremely limited infrastructure (no roads, health care, or electricity). Through mobile health clinics we care for the sick while developing relationships and gaining further insight into the community needs. Our long term goal is to develop a sustainable health care network by training local village health workers and connecting them with urban resources. In collaboration with a dynamic team, we are also able to focus on church and spiritual development, reforestation, and mental and social health needs such as psychiatric illness, substance abuse, child abuse, and family issues.

And we partner with people like you, our friends, churches, and organizations to bring this health and healing. . . Your support through Art4Causes is a vital aspect in our continuing work. Through your donation many people without access to health care will gain new possibilities in healing.

-Jonathan and Mandy Casurella

Website: www.besidethebaobab.com.
Photo Gallery:

New Birth Ministries, Honduras

Maria’s cries echo through her small mountain village. Something has gone terribly wrong. She pushes with all of her might, but the baby still does not move. Hours have passed. Tears join the sweat already rolling down her face as she sees that she is starting to bleed. She looks at her mother kneeling on the dirt floor beside her. She can see the fear in her eyes. Her sister died three years ago during childbirth…

Most women living on the rural north coast of Honduras have no option but to deliver their babies at home under very primitive and usually unsanitary conditions. The nearest city is a day’s journey or a 2 hr bus ride which is unaffordable for many. If problems arise during childbirth, some try to make the long trip to the city but it is often too late.

God has given me a vision to change that situation. Since August of 2007, I have had the privilege of developing a prenatal care program at Loma de Luz hospital with a nurse midwife from the states. We provide a place where emergencies and complications can be treated. We teach lay midwives in the village communities, educate patients, and provide prenatal care in an attempt to prevent these emergencies. We provide spiritual care for patients. We let the women know they have somewhere to turn.

With your help, we can continue to save the lives of women like Maria and their babies.

-Doctora Rina (Renee Kusler, MD)

To read the most recent updates by Dr. Kusler on New Birth Ministries, visit: www.hondurasdoc.blogspot.com
Photo Gallery:




Next

Mercy and Sharing, Haiti (Earthquake Relief 2010)

In addition to their ongoing care of hundreds of orphans and abandoned babies in Port-Au-Prince, the Mercy & Sharing Foundation is currently providing food and supply relief to those harmed by the earthquakes , working on rebuilding projects of Mercy and Sharing, as well as helping others rebuild. They need your help now more than ever.

Their ongoing projects include an orphanage for terminally ill and handicapped children, an orphanage for healthy infants and toddlers, a school in the slums of Cite Soliel, and a number of new feeding centers including a recently opened Health Center. They have also worked with an abandoned baby unit at the local public hospital, which received a lot of press recently when 32 children went missing after the earthquake. They have about 150 employees, mostly Haitian nationals, who help provide a loving, caring and nurturing environment for the children.

The Mercy & Sharing Foundation is a private, non-profit relief organization founded by Susie and Joe Krabacher in 1994. In all of the projects there is a common thread: opportunity. They teach the children to learn and teach others, to learn a trade in their adolescence, and later provide for themselves and their families and better their country.

One of our upcoming artists, author Marcus Brotherton, has personally worked with Susie Krabacher (on her book "Angels of a Lower Flight") and has also worked in Haiti.

To read more about Mercy and Sharing and see photos, visit their website at www.haitichildren.com
Mercy and Sharing as featured on CNN, Feb 2010
Back to Top of Page

Starfish Ministries, Haiti (Earthquake Relief 2010)

Starfish Ministries is currently raising support for Haitian families they personally know that were devasted by the earthquake. They are committed to providing help on several levels: First, the immediate need of food and water for about 5,000 people in addition to the 6,500 children they already feed and support in local villages. Second, the daily needs of families they know affected by the earthquake in donations of $50-$100 a month over the next 6 months. And lastly, the rebuilding of homes and schools and churches; work that needs support beyond the next 12 months.

Bernie & Sheryl Bovenkamp first connected with the Haitians in 1992 surrounding the building of an orphanage. But they soon found out that God had much more in mind for them than just building and supporting this one orphanage. They saw a profound need for education and food for thousands of children in the surrounding villages. Starfish Ministries now has schools in 33 remote villages of Haiti where they provide both food and education for over 6500 children. This has been made possible through relationships made with local Haitians, the groundwork of Pastor Diogene who lives and works in Haiti, and the support of people back home. Starfish Ministries operates on the principle that the Haitians know how to work and support their community best, thus developing partnerships with them that allows projects to thrive and grow locally.

One of our upcoming artists, author Marcus Brotherton, has personally worked with the Bovenkamps in Haiti.

To read more about Starfish Ministries, visit their website at www.starfishministries.org

Video of Starfish Ministries Story and Current Projects - 4.5min
Back to Top of Page