Tags: Paintings, Visual arts
By Nikka Garriga
MAKATI CITY, METRO MANILA– Some17 distinguished Filipino professional visual artists have pooled their skills in a charity exhibit that aims to encourage volunteerism as means of addressing poverty and threats to environment.
The Art for Volunteerism charity exhibit features the masterpieces of renowned Filipino artists like Marco Ruben Malto II, Daniel Coquilla, Benjie Cabangis, Mark Justiniani, and Paolo Baen Santos,to name a few.
This debut campaign is one of the social development programs of the international organization VSO Bahaginan in an effort to engage individuals to create lasting and sustained change through volunteerism.
A total of 48 paintings will be available for exhibit and online selling.
The amount raised will be used to help fund the VSO Bahaginan’s Model Forest Projects located in Ulot in the province of Samar and Carood in Bohol.
The Model Forest Project seeks to resolve environment-related issues while contributing to the transformation of the lives of the townsmen and their sources of livelihood.
The environment program is in partnership with the International Model Forest Network (IMFN) and the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) to establish sustainable management of the Carood Watershed in Bohol and the Ulot Watershed in Samar.
It also seeks to empower local communities in fostering and advocating environmental protection besides instilling the values of self-sufficiency and productivity.
“The project hopes to see communities flourish, where its dwellers are committed in protecting the environment because they themselves have experienced the benefit it brings them,” Malou Pantua-Jacinto of the VSO Bahaginan said during the official launch of the exhibit.
Artist and VSO volunteer Marco Malto is hoping that their participation would also encourage many more Filipino talents to share their skills for goodwill.
“A purchase of one artwork can go a long way in helping others. As an artist, this is my way of sharing what I can do to make a difference for those in need,” he said.
Visit the Art for Volunteerism website for more information on the campaign and the fund-raising project.
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