A kind artist is auctioning off a gorgeous watercolour Cape Parrot to help children from forest-edge communities with new shoes for their educational camps!
South Africa (26 November 2024) — Artists have been using their work for all kinds of wonderful reasons across different parts of the country. Following Alani Nel’s colourful creation in honour of an even more colourful legend, Oupa Kat for MES, Charlene Rudman has offered a watercolour Cape Parrot to help children from forest-edge communities.
Charlene Rudman has produced numerous gorgeous works honouring different strokes of flora and fauna, including African penguins, rhinos, and Namaqualand’s wildflowers, which are all in bloom.
The Cape Parrot Project explains that the auctioning of Charlene’s watercolour Cape Parrot will see all proceeds go toward purchasing hiking shoes for children who participate in the Cape Parrot Project’s educational camps.
For the past four years, the Cape Parrot Project and Hobbiton-on-Hogsback have hosted these educational camps, which have impacted over 400 children.
The experiences are immersive; helping children from 10-14 learn about a myriad of important topics in relation to their ecosystems; including biodiversity, water security and climate resilience. Through outdoor challenges, team-building adventures and thrilling hits like abseiling; the children are able to interact with the environment that they are encouraged to love and care for.
Throughout all the mini-adventures the children are treated to, a favourite is the Biodiversity Walk. However, as the Cape Parrot Project team share, they have realised that many of the children do not have the right shoes to hike safely. Some have tried to tackle it in flip flops, and many of the children only have school shoes to count on.
Charlene’s A4 original hopes to make a difference that will serve the kids in and beyond the educational camps.
Bidding for the watercolour Cape Parrot has already begun, and you can name your price here.
And, you can keep up with the heroes looking out for South Africa’s only endemic parrot here.
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