Date: June 12-18

Host: Freedom in Creation & Alex Mejias

Location: Various

Venue: Various

Issue: Child Soldiers

A big thanks to Alex Mejias for passing this info along to me. Art therapy and art as a means of healing seem to be exploding everywhere, and this series of events sounds fantastic. Be sure to check out more on the Freedom in Creation website for more background on the organization, as well as the Freedom in Creation Tour website for more specifics and information on the tour itself. Here’s the run down:

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Tags: Africa, Alex Mejias, Andrew Briggs, Art Exhibit, Art Therapy, Clean Water, Concert, Freedom in Creation, Kentucky, Tim Be Told, Uganda, Virginia

Date: June 12-18

Issue: poverty

Organization: Krochet Kids

In keeping with the theory behind Follow Friday on Twitter, I thought I’d start using the same idea to begin posting about human rights and social justice organizations here, in an effort to provide an avenue to represent not just individual artists, but those they often work for. That being said, you can look for a new organization to be posted here every Friday, and be updated via Twitter by following my blog here.

As my first “Follow Friday” organization, this week, I’m featuring Krochet Kids International, based in the United States, but hosting projects in northern Uganda.

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Tags: Apparel, Empowerment, Follow Friday, Krochet Kids, Organization, Poverty, Sustainable Living, Uganda