“America”A Children’s Art Exhibition by Filipino indigent children
June 4, 2009 / Roswell, GA. Galing Foundation, Inc., in partnership with Roswell Visual Arts Center, announces a Children’s Art Exhibition showing from June 26 until August 7. On Friday evening June 26th from 7 until 9, an opening reception will celebrate the start of this six-week long exhibit. Representatives from partner organizations participating in the reception include Philippine Honorary Consul General, Ray Donato; City of Roswell Mayor, Jere Wood; and Cross of Life Lutheran Church’s Social Ministries.
This exhibit, consisting of 100 select drawings, celebrates the creative art work of some of the children who are benefactors of the foundation and who reside in Philippine provinces of Quezon, Cavite, South Cotabato and Sarangani. With this exhibit, the Roswell Visual Arts Center provides visitors a special opportunity to appreciate each child’s perception of America expressed through art.
Galing Foundation, a small non-profit charity, is an all volunteer organization founded in May 2005 and incorporated in the State of Georgia June 2006. Galing is a Filipino word that means “Great”. The foundation believes that all children have the potential to become great and responsible stewards of their communities. Its initial charter was to provide educational materials to forty indigent children located in Lucban, Quezon. The foundation has grown and now works in cooperation with 15 recipient agencies located in rural areas of the Philippines including public schools, public libraries and government supported day care centers.
Since its inception, the foundation has shipped to the Philippines over 115 cargo boxes, each eight-cubic feet in volume, filled with educational material. Donations made by Atlanta area individuals, schools, public libraries, Filipino-American organizations, and churches provide thousands of under-privileged Filipino children an opportunity to read books that otherwise would not be available to them.
In the Philippines, millions of children live in desperate conditions with few schools and even fewer opportunities to learn and acquire basic life skills. The foundation will continue to collect new and gently used educational resources, to ship these resources to needy children in the Philippines, and to raise funds to pay for the ocean freight. The foundation is dedicated to promote the importance of functional and English literacy in impoverished rural areas of the Philippines.
Roswell Visual Arts Center & Gallery
10495 Woodstock Road
Roswell, GA 30075
770-594-6122
For more information, please visit www.galingfoundation.com
