"Cypress on a Hill"
36x36 Acrylic on Canvas
Hello All Activerain members!
I'd like to invite you to help empower the homeless at a fundraiser event on Friday, June 25th, from 6-10pm in Vancouver, BC at Gallery Gachet on 88 East Cordova Street.
CFFS’s vision statement is to provide opportunity and support for homeless, recovering people (mental affliction and/or physical addiction), and other marginalized or needy groups in Canada; and we accomplish this via donated potted plants and cut flowers.
Another successful CFFS program being offered to seniors and people undergoing psychosocial rehabilitation (the MPA Society) is called the Office Floral Outreach Program where our volunteers provide donated flowers and expertise to seniors (floral classes) at their home (group residence) or mental health organizations to create floral arrangements or decorate potted plants for local offices and businesses in exchange for donations of any size.
Since 2005 CFFS has been delivering these collected flowers to other charitable programs including the Mom Agape Street Ministry for Homeless persons who use the flowers on the streets in exchange for monetary donations to eat and live.
The CFFS Street Level Program utilizes floral discards destined for regional landfills. In 2008 the CFFS picked up and transferred just under 60-thousand floral stems to homeless people in Metro Vancouver as part of the estimated quarter-million floral stems that have passed through CFFS to homeless and marginalized persons since year one.
I have been chosen as one of the artists to participate in this fundraising event. My paintings will be auctioned and all proceeds will go to empower the homeless. I hope you can join us that evening, or you can go on-line by visiting www.flowersforfood.com and make a small contribution!
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