NALA helps
NALA helps the Warembo Wassani Art Center, Nairobi / Kenya
Hello friends of Art,
Today I want to dedicate this text to a good friend who always think of others not just herself, even in corona times.
She runs an art centre in the north east part of Nairobi. A slums of korogocho which apparently hosts the largest dumpsite in Kenya called “Dandora dumpsite “.
I talking about Joan Otieno.
When I visited her last year in her studio on the 5th floor of a neglected skyscraper, I looked at countless clothes made of plastic waste. Skirts made of detergent packaging, plastic cups, plastic bags, screw caps, hats and caps made of bottle caps, old CDs and other materials that Joan and her team have collected from smelly rubbish heaps in slums.
I moved with her and her 15-member team, consisting of students and former street children, who now have a new role thanks to the "waste art".
We collected waste. Mostly plastic waste, bottle caps, PVC screw caps, packaging made of metal, cans, bottles ..., which on meter-high stinking rubbish heaps, along the street, mostly led to even more stinking sewers.
We collected many sacks of it and brought them to the studio. There they were washed, disinfected and sorted by material.
In painstaking detail work, dresses, pants, hats, shoes and pictures were created.
Joan Otieno organized fashion shows, charitable events and exhibitions at home and abroad. She was invited to workshops in Sweden and Australia.
While in Sweden she visited different recycling organisations and talked about the recycling situation in Kenya which is so worrying. She held workshops and an exhibition too on the art with recycled materials.
While in Adelaide, South Australia, she facilitated 8 workshops each on the art with recycled materials and gave a speech during the international women’s day.
Joan has been taking care of disadvantaged children in the slums by making them busy by doing art so that they don’t engage in unlawful activities for (4) years.
Now, especially in the Corona crisis, works of art emerged that she only offers for sale during the crisis, in order to continue to enable her students to have 1 hot meal a day, because many live only from hand to mouth, live from sales of fruit and Vegetables that they sell on the street. These earning opportunities disappear during the curfew and many don't know how to feed their children.
These CORONA ART SPECIALS are now FOR SALE.
The price is in the description next to the picture.
With every purchase they ensure that everyone has enough rice and beans or corn porridge and vegetables to eat, and that the Warembo Wassani Art Center will continue to help disadvantaged children improve their future.
And so that I now know who has finished reading the article, write the word "WASTE ART ”in the comments.
I thank you for your time and support.
Please write in the comment which artwork you want to buy. More information is then available via personal message.
With colorful greetings, Andre Pilz ( Papa Nala ) Kassel, Germany.
400 Euros donated
Thanks to:
Mr.Fred, The Netherlands
Mr.Kühne, Görlitz, Germany
Mrs.Christen, Aarau, Switzerland
NALA helps Diana. Windhoek / Namibia
This is Diana, she is 27 years old and a single mother of 4 children
(Given 9 years, Chamela 7 years, Marly 5 years and Adriana 6 months).
I met Diana at the Art Center in Katutura/ Windhoek ( Namibia )
She was interested in my project and the NALA exhibition and asked me many questions. She used to work as a security guard at the Art Center, one of the most boring jobs in the world.
One day she asked me if I would know about another job for her, but since I am just a guest here my answer was negative.
She wanted to really work, do something productive and not just sit around and stare into space.
We started talking and she told me that the exploiting security company she worked for paid its employees only after 2 or 3 months and less than it was agreed on. Most people here are glad to have a job at all, even if it only pays 75 Euros per month and they have to work all day without breaks…. (if you want to learn the whole story, I can send it to you through email)
I gave thought to the whole story and got her in touch with a friend who was looking for a cleaner. But he wanted to pay her only about 70 NAM$ per day (about 5.50 €). So I kept looking and got an idea…
NALA will help and support Diana and I came up with a new job for her. I sold some of my paintings and from the returns I will buy her a sewing machine. This way Diana can sew more NALA products on her own. The returns from these products will benefit and support this project. Therefore I need many buyers for my NALA products!
I visited Diana at her mother’s place in Okahandja Park, one of the poorest parts of Katutura/Windhoek. It’s an informal settlement and the house was built with corrugated metal sheets and plastic canvas. There is no electricity or water in the house. The bathroom (outside far from the house) they have to share with several people. Her mother, who is supposed to watch the children while Diana is at work, is usually drunk and even ate up all the food that I had recently bought for Diana and her children.
Diana would like to move out there and build up a peaceful home for herself and her children.
If you would like to support “Project Diana”… this is your chance:
As soon as the support from you for this project reaches 100 Euro, I will get the amount from my account and buy the sewing machine for “Project Diana”.
Additionally 350 Euro are needed to support Diana to move into her own house and give her children the chance to live in a peaceful environment.
Here you can see how much support the project has gotten so far and when the project has been realized (every dot marks 10 Euro).
If you, as a supporter, would like your name to be published on the website I will do so of course. You can also choose what you want to support … the purchase of the sewing machine or a new home for Diana.
550 Euro donated. (for a new Shack House and a new Sewing Machine)
Thanks to:
Fam. Ulrich, Jena
Mr. Messermann, Mainz
Fam. Defér, Freital
Mrs. Schollenbruch, Leipzig
Mr. Teistler, Flöha
Mrs. Schiefer, Windhoek, Namibia
Mr. Fred, The Netherlands
Mr. Sowa, New Zealand
NALA ART NEWS
latest update: 22.08.2021
NALA Artwork from CUBA
Title: The Farmer
Size and Medium: 120cm x 80cm, Oil on Canvas
Artist: Asiel
City: Cienfuegos, CUBA
The Farmer talks about the daily struggle of a peasant and the social commitment that his work represents for Cuban society.
Habla de la lucha diaria de un campesino y del compromiso social que representa su trabajo para la sociedad cubana.
More Infos about the Artist see here: Artists from CUBA
Hello friends of Nala.
In all the years when I traveled the world with my doll, NALA, she got always new clothes in every country, which were sewn for her in numerous countries.
Now she even has more clothes than me, and today I present you exclusively, NALA's new dress from Cuba.
The artist Yailin Morales from Nuevo Paz, CUBA sewed the new dress for NALA with a lot of love, devotion and arrangement.
It was created with absolute love and perfectly handcrafted.
Many Thanks, Yailin for this wonderful Summer-dress.
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Hola amigos de Nala.
En todos los años en que viajé por el mundo con mi muñeca, NALA, siempre consiguió ropa nueva en todos los países, que le cosían en numerosos países.
Ahora incluso tiene más ropa que yo.Y hoy les presento en exclusiva, el nuevo vestido de NALA desde Cuba.
El artista Yailin Morales de Nuevo Paz, CUBA cosió el vestido nuevo para NALA con mucho amor, devoción y arreglo.
Fue creado con absoluto amor y perfectamente hecho a mano.
Muchas gracias, Yailin por este maravilloso vestido de verano.
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NALA in Valencia, Spain (español abajo)
Hello my Friends,
many greetings from Valencia in Spain.
Today I visited ,,Ciutat de les Arts i les Ciéncies,,
( Science Museum) in Valencia, Spain.
The weather can not be better for my little city adventure.
Soon I sent more photos from this amazing City.
Come and visit Valencia.
I wish you all a great week.
Take care and keep in Touch.
Yours NALA
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NALA en Valencia, España
Hola mis amigos,
muchos saludos desde Valencia en España.
Hoy visité la Ciutat de les Arts i les Ciéncies en Valencia, España.
El clima no puede ser mejor para mi pequeña aventura urbana. Mañana les envié más fotos de esta increíble ciudad.
Ven a visitar Valencia.
Les deseo a todos una gran semana.
Tenga cuidado y mantenerse en contacto.
Tuyo NALA
Hello Friends of NALA,
Here I present you another unique NALA Artwork from Ecuador.
Nala explores nature while riding a llama.
The Artist is Mika Játiva from Quito in Ecuador.
Thank you, Mika for this extraordinary Artwork.
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Hola amigos de NALA,
Aquí les presento otra Obra de Arte NALA única de Ecuador.
Nala explora la naturaleza mientras monta una llama.
El artista es Mika Játiva de Quito en Ecuador.
Gracias, Mika por esta extraordinaria obra de arte.
This NALA Artwork is now exhibited at Zeitz Mocaa Art Museum
in Cape Town / South Africa
22. October 2020 till 10. January 2021.
NALA and Graffity Ana by Richard Scott
Richard Scott is a very well known international British artist who lives in Cape Town. He refined my 2013 NALA painting with his Grafitty Ana.
I visited Richard in his studio in Cape Town in 2019.
He was immediately enthusiastic about my NALA Project and enhanced my little NALA painting with his art.
This NALA painting is now hanging from
22. October 2020 - 10. January 2021 in the
Zeitz Mocaa Art Museum in Cape Town in a special exhibition. "Home is where Art is"
A Big "Thank you" goes to Andrea Schachler. She helped me so much, that this Painting found the way to the Art Exhibition at Zeitz Mocaa. Thank you, Andrea.
Hello friends of NALA.
please see Article here: Nala helps
You will surely remember the NALA Corona Art artworks by Joan Otieno from Nairobi, Kenya.
With the help of my NALA Project, the Kenyan Artist Joan Otieno sold small NALA artworks for over 400 euros. (40,000 ksh)
Many thanks to the buyers from Germany, the Netherlands and Switzerland.
Each sale ensured that everyone had enough rice and beans or corn porridge and vegetables to eat, and the Warembo Wassani Art Center continued to help underprivileged children improve their future.
Unfortunately, these small NALA artworks are still in Kenya and could not yet be sent to Germany due to Corona and high-cost transport costs.
DHL asked for an amount of 300 Euros for 6 kg of recycling art.
If you are flying from Kenya to Germany or Switzerland in the near future, please let me know.
Maybe you can bring the NALA Art package with you.
Thank you for reading.
André Pilz,
The NALA Art Project.
The Ecuador - Peru cyclingtrip is cancelled because of the current CORONA pandemie.
I start as soon as the situation is getting normal and no risc for health and life.
I wish all my friends, website followers and all people i dont know yet, good health and stayed strong.
NALA visits Ecuador and Peru.
www.the-nala-project.com
Long-distance cyclist André Pilz from Kassel, Germany will be visit with his NALA art project the countries of Ecuador and Peru.
André and Nala cycled approximately 16,500 km in 3 years
from South Africa to Ethiopia.
On the road, they met 119 artists from 15 countries, who
supported the Project with more then 160 NALA Artworks.
Now they going to South America and looking for painters
and sculptors support the NALA project.
NALA is a little African girl who had the dream
traveling behind the mountains and escaping from home
to explore the world by bicycle.
The artists tell NALA's travel story through
works of art that are shown in traveling exhibitions.
There have already been 8 Art exhibitions in Africa and Europe.
If you want to participate in the NALA global art project,
write me an email or a message on Facebook.
thelittlenala@gmail.com
FB: TheNalaProject
NALA MEMORY GAME
only 5 more available ( 15 NALA Art Memory sold )
The Nala Project presents,
The NALA Art Memory Game.
#StayHome - limited edition 2020
36 selected NALA artworks by artists from 15 countries now enrich your gamenight at home.
Stay at home and play; The NALA Art Memory Game.
More Infos here: NALA Products
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Das NALA Kunst Gedächtnisspiel.
#StayHome - limited edition 2020
36 ausgesuchte NALA Kunstwerke von Künstlern aus 15 Ländern bereichern jetzt deinen Spielabend zu Hause.
Bleib zu Hause und spiele; The NALA Art Memory Game.
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The Nala Project presenta,
The NALA Art Memory Game.
# quedarse en casa - edición limitada 2020
36 obras de arte seleccionadas de Nala de artistas de 15 países ahora enriquecen tu noche de juegos en casa.
Quédate en casa y juega; El juego de memoria de arte NALA.
NALA ART BOOK
NALA ART Booklet ready for Download
The NALA ART Booklet is now available as PDF File for download.
Selected Artists show amazing NALA Artworks from southern and east Africa.
NALA SLIDESHOW
NALA Slideshow video on YouTube
On YouTube you can see the little video, which we shown during the NALA ART Exhibition in Germany.
This Video shows André´s and Nala´s artistic bicycle Journey through Africa.
The titles are in german language, but there are very nice photos to see.
Follow this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSkB-UHgOeo
It will be lovely if you can leave a comment about the NALA Project here: Opinion about The NALA Project.
Thank you very much
Yours NALA and André
I am currently in: Aarau, Switzerland
Tel. +41 76 823 1367
Email: thelittlenala@gmail.com
Current mission:
+ André and NALA are back in Germany to promote
The NALA Project and their Artists. Searching new Exhibition Space.
Next destination
We will start to our NALA Art Project Cyclingtrip through Ecuador and Peru as soon as Corona Pedemie is over.
Cycled kilometer: 16.425 km
Tourstart by Bike was: Monday April 1, 2013
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