I d should have posted this yesterday! Cross the bridge for preview photos. Hopefully they will pique your appetite for gorgeous handicrafts, delicious books and traditional Palestinian culinary staples!
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Filed under: Palestine | Tags: coins, Exhibition, money-box, paint, Palestine
I have been volunteering with the Palestinian Cultural Center for over fifteen years now, and a few years ago, we launched an initiative to include children in our efforts to aid Palestinians inside Palestine. And what better way to get the kiddies involved than by having them collect their coins in these money-boxes decorated by the more artistically inclined volunteers! See, what you do is you purchase a box at one of our biannual exhibitions, take it home and drop your loose change in. Six months later, you bring the box into our exhibition and we count the money together. And that’s your contribution! It’s a fun idea which has been effective in involving non-volunteers to feel like they are making a difference. And believe me, the coins we have received over the last three or four years have made that difference, contributing to the provision of educational tools, everyday family welfare and basic survival needs. (more…)
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Filed under: moleskine, Notes & Doodles, Palestine | Tags: doodles, ink, moleskine, notes, Palestine, red
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Filed under: Palestine, The Kuwait Scene | Tags: bait lothan, Exhibition, palestinian cultural center
decorating these money boxes have been fun, although a little difficult to handle as they are tin and difficult to clean!
At the Palestinian Culture Center we like to encourage the spirit of giving. For a few years now, we’ve been selling these money banks to motivate children and adults alike to collect their change rather than discard it. On the last day of our four-day exhibitions, the money is counted and donated to various Palestinian causes. This year I volunteered to decorate these banks. We used to use small, ceramic urns with a slot, but unfortunately the market was out of those. I don’t think I did too bad with the tin boxes though, as big of a pain as they were!
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