Rebecca Peragine's world map poster is beautifully designed, with sweet images of the people and animals who inhabit different regions. What's special about this art, though, is that buying it will help less fortunate children and families, and hanging it in your child's room could serve as a perpetual reminder to show compassion for others.
Peragine teamed up with Future Fortified, a campaign from Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition, to donate all the proceeds from this poster to help children and families in Kenya. Each poster costs $40, and those funds will provide a month's worth of nutrients to 20 children in Kenya and contribute food and education to their families.
The print's map of the world is captioned with a banner that reads, "Compassion for the Earth and all who inhabit it," a daily mantra that many parents will find powerful. Whether you choose to explain the impetus behind the art now or later, you are already instilling a sense of the world and others' needs.
Available from Children Inspire Design for $40 for a limited time.
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I like this poster a lot, but Charity Navigator doesn't have any listing or information about this organization. Does anyone have experience with it? I'm all for giving to charity, but responsibly.
If the poster benefits children in Kenya, why are there no children in Africa?
The slogan is way too saccharine sweet for me and I'm put off by the overtones of gaia worship.
Cute drawing though.
gaia worship...I always hate myself for reading AT comments UNREAL
Gaia worship? You've got to be kidding me, Battra92.
Are you kidding? There are 5 comments for this beautiful piece of art that is trying to do something to help people, and 3 of them are negative? Really? "Why are there no children in Africa"? "too saccharine sweet"??? What are you people, dead inside?
it's a cute pic, but i'm always a bit put off by advertising to people that you give to charity. buy a pretty poster & give to charity, but i think it speaks louder when you don't actually yell it from the city gates, if you know what i mean. teaching our children to give w/ humility & give to our fullest even if nobody ever knows, is very important. besides, when we give to charities that don't give us a product back, we're usually able to be more selective & far more of that gift benefits people b/c it's not covering the production cost.
I'm with you, Foodrepublik. Furthermore, one of the constant messages on AT is that your space should reflect who you are. If giving to this organization is one reflection of what matters to you, I have absolutely no problem with hanging the poster in your house.
I think people are just spiteful negative creatures! This article is lovely & for a positive cause! How do charities and non-profits succeed? Hello! By advertising, by word of mouth and by giving! Where in this article does it advertise the name of individuals who have donated? Have a heart people and get off your soap boxes. 'The Gael Gallery' should just not post if they clearly have nothing but negative views... "yelling it from the city gates"? Seriously?
Hungry children benefit from the sales of these art works and I think it's wonderful. This artist is doing a lot more for mankind than I bet most of the commenters on here are doing...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Alliance_for_Improved_Nutrition
X3 for foodrepublik's comment. I think I'm moderately well-educated and I can't begin to imagine how Gaia worship would be depicted for children. Ice fishing is only done by pagans? News to the people of Minnesota! Perhaps the international Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) isn't listed with the somewhat unreliable Charity Navigator because it's an independent non-profit foundation started by a Special Session of the United Nation's General Assembly on Children and is based in Geneva, Switzerland.
X4 for foodrepublick's comment. It's a cute pic, and maybe instead of just spending endless amounts of money on designer thing for kids' rooms, people could share with some of the world's poorest kids. That'd certainly be a lot nicer than making snarky comments.
for the record, i didn't say it was wrong, i said i found it off putting. like along the same lines of if someone tells me how much their new car costs or something. not wrong, i'm just not attracted to it.
& yes, actually, i do give to charity. i'm actually living in a 3rd world country volunteering. & i'd prefer it if people would give to charities where 100% went into the charity. more people get helped that way.
absolutely be a cheerful giver, just be a conscious & humble one. i'm much happier w/ what i did today having kept it entirely to myself. FOR ME, if i were to broadcast my good deeds, it would make them less selfless b/c they would be serving me. but ya know, that's for me & that is why i find it off putting.
like i said though, cute picture.
Eh, smells of middle-class white people wanting to show off that they help nice, polite, middle-class causes like endangered species in places they couldn't otherwise find on a map.
Why not put up posters from local causes that you're actually involved in, or posters reminding you to act out in your own life against the racism, classism, sexism, homophobia, etc. in your own community?