Global

OliveUs like to support micro-projects around the world that empower students to create change using their imagination and artistry.

Here are our first two international projects, the first from Guatamala in 2009, and the second in Uganda in 2010. Look out for Kenya in 2011!

San Lucas Toliman, Guatemala

Inspired by their own sons Lukas and Jakubs’ experience with the InStill Life project in Naramata B.C., Jan and Jennifer Vozenilek brought InStill Life to a school in  Guatemala.

As in Canada, students explored food in their homes, community and around the planet and then created beautiful still life paintings of their favourite foods. For almost all of the fifty students, it was the first time they had ever painted.

Proceeds from these card sales will be used to purchase needed supplies at the students school, and will also go to fund food challenges around the world through kiva.org, an organization which facilitates micro-lending.

Students in Naramata and Guatemala have exchanged photos and letters and are discovering that despite their different taste in foods, language and experience, that all of us share a love of art, fun and a desire for a better world.