It just started with a very simple idea of making a
compilation of my watercolor paintings in a calendar. There was nothing romantic or heroic with the
concept to begin with. It was merely
another way of selling my works in an art fair.
Some are moved by storm surge, others by an angel’s
whisper. I changed course after a
conversation with a friend who has always rallied behind my art. She said that she would sell the calendars a
few hundred pesos more and will donate the extra profit to Yolanda.
Then I saw the possibility to help and the window of
opportunity to put my art to good use aside from it being my personal therapy kit. That
was how it started. From the plan to
donate Php300.00 for every calendar sold to donating the entire profit to
Yolanda.
The goal is to raise a million to build a classroom where
children can learn and find joy in discovering their potential, so that they
will not always feel sorry for themselves.
After all, education is very close to my heart and its art is my full
time job.
I am on my 179th calendar. There are 179 people with me in this.
We have neither name in politics nor fame in what we
try to do but we know that if all of us nameless and fameless people gather, we
are going to build a classroom in a place where the storm brought the sea to
where it should not be and snatched lives and erased communities. There is always hope and a chance to dream
where children can learn and move on.
I am such an amateur in what I have embarked on lately
but this I found out from the ordinarily godly people that I have encountered
in this project: Great wealth and riches
come from the heart.
