Today on the Amazon Draw/Create/Paint gift page for refugee children, I bought a coloring book for $6.96 that includes stress relieving butterfly patterns for $6.99. I saw this item on the Amazon wish list, it is simple to use and inexpensive. Just click the draw/paint/create button on the Amazon checkout page. This is a wonderful way to help children who are often traumatized by their experience before coming to America and who are struggling to adjust to the complex life here.

We are seeking to put together 90 of these kits for refugee children in upstate New York, where a large number has come in recent months and years. We are only a few hundred dollars short of the $1,200 we need to get these kids into the hands of the children who need them.

The wish list is dwindling, people are very drawn to this project. We are almost there.

I’m on my way to Albany this afternoon to meet some of them, and hopefully, photograph one or two.

You can also, if you prefer, donate directly to this very timely and urgently needed program by going here. The kids are being put together by the Vermont author, painter,  and illustrator Rachel Barlow. Thanks much.