Jeevan's Jewellery Project Fund
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WHO WE ARE: LIT ASSOCIATION
We are a not-for-profit arts organisation dedicated to promote and incubate cultural and interactive artistic projects in collaboration with people/communities living in precarious, violent or abusive situations. Our work is focused on providing creative tools that contribute to the development of individual and collective welfare.
Lit-association.com
ABOUT THE PROJECT ( summer 2017)
Following our last project’ success, we will return for one month in august 2017 in Varanasi, India, to collaborate again with Jeevan School Foundation that shelters and educates street children in order to develop original fair-trade jewellery collections that will be for sale in At Work gallery and on the Aurelie Dellasanta Jewellery website amongst others selling points in London and Geneva. Part of the benefits will go to Jeevan School Foundation in order to support their amazing work.
Jewellery pieces from Jeevan Collection made in 2016
Display of the Jeevan Collection at At Work Gallery, London.
ABOUT JEEVAN SCHOOL FOUNDATION
Jeevan School Foundation is an education-based project that provides free food, shelter, health care, caring and education to over 120 marginalised children. Their children come from beggar families, rickshaw-pullers, migrant workers and labourers. Many families are alcoholics and as a result, many children suffer from special needs issues due to malnutrition, neglect and foetal alcohol effects.
To learn more about Jeevan's school foundation please click here. - http://www.basichumanneeds.org/
The slum where children's family are living
Jeevan's children singing the Jeevan School song with one of the managers of Jeevan School Foundation.
OUTCOME OF THE PROJECT IN SUMMER 2016
As a designer of jewellery for over 15 years, this project was born from the desire to share my passion for jewellery and creativity with an amazing and beautiful bunch of teenagers I met through Jeevan School Foundation in 2006. During my numerous stays in Varanasi, I had the chance to see them grow safe, to study and develop their full potential.
In August 2016, during 1 month, despite the Ganga river flood transforming the school in a swimming pool for a week, we have developed exciting jewellery collections that have been exhibited in a fair-trade café-shop in the holy city, and are since November 2016 for sell in the award-winning At Work Gallery in London. Half of the collection has been already sold. One-third of the selling price is given to Jeevan School Foundation as a way of funding and supporting the children's education.
Children posing in front of their jewellery display at Open Hand fair-trade café-shop
Click here to see the jewellery pieces of Jeevan Collection.
To learn more about At Work Gallery please click here:
http://www.atworkgallery.co.uk/
Design and making process
The children have carried out an intensive design process, collecting references and sharing thoughts. Discussions about fulfilling experiences in their daily life lead to amazing drawings that were developed in jewellery pieces, using the etching and photo etching techniques. To complete their pieces, the children have learned and practised basic techniques of jewellery such as piercing, filing, soldering and polishing.
Pooja is drawing a peacock for her jewellery collection
Pawan is drawing a geometric pattern with stencils for the development of his collection
Kushboo is practising for the first time soldering
Poojs is sawing her etched design
Pooja's Peacock Earrings, gold plated brass, amethysts, tourmalines, pink sapphire
Jitender's Skull Ring, gold plated brass, synthetic opals, garnets
To discover more in details the project development:
http://www.lit-association.com/jeevan-jewellery-collection-project
Facebook Page:
https://www.facebook.com/jeevancollection/
AND NOW…WE NEED YOUR HELP!
As the children and the Jeevan staff loved so much the project and were so proud of their achievement last year, they have asked us to go back this coming summer to keep learning and practising jewellery techniques and making new jewellery pieces that will be for sale in London and Geneva. Part of the benefits will go to the foundation. They are firmly waiting for us and will be disappointed if we can’t make it.
This is why we are highly motivated to go this summer but need some support in order to make this project come true. We will really appreciate any help. Even little will be very helpful to make this happens and support this community. Also, on the long run, this project could lead to a professional career for some of the most committed children.
This time we plan to work with a larger group of children aged from 4 to 18 years-old, which will give birth to a wider range of designs and burst of creativity for the project.
A PRESENT FOR YOUR HELP
If you are able to donate £15 or a bigger amount, you will receive a present from us! This is a clutch bag ornamented with a design made by one of the children during summer 2018. This will be sent to you by September 2018.
Clutch ornamented with Kumar's drawing, 4 years old made in august 2016
Thank you so much for reading our project and for donating for this cause!
We are a not-for-profit arts organisation dedicated to promote and incubate cultural and interactive artistic projects in collaboration with people/communities living in precarious, violent or abusive situations. Our work is focused on providing creative tools that contribute to the development of individual and collective welfare.
Lit-association.com
ABOUT THE PROJECT ( summer 2017)
Following our last project’ success, we will return for one month in august 2017 in Varanasi, India, to collaborate again with Jeevan School Foundation that shelters and educates street children in order to develop original fair-trade jewellery collections that will be for sale in At Work gallery and on the Aurelie Dellasanta Jewellery website amongst others selling points in London and Geneva. Part of the benefits will go to Jeevan School Foundation in order to support their amazing work.
Jewellery pieces from Jeevan Collection made in 2016Display of the Jeevan Collection at At Work Gallery, London.ABOUT JEEVAN SCHOOL FOUNDATION
Jeevan School Foundation is an education-based project that provides free food, shelter, health care, caring and education to over 120 marginalised children. Their children come from beggar families, rickshaw-pullers, migrant workers and labourers. Many families are alcoholics and as a result, many children suffer from special needs issues due to malnutrition, neglect and foetal alcohol effects.
To learn more about Jeevan's school foundation please click here. - http://www.basichumanneeds.org/
The slum where children's family are livingJeevan's children singing the Jeevan School song with one of the managers of Jeevan School Foundation.
OUTCOME OF THE PROJECT IN SUMMER 2016
As a designer of jewellery for over 15 years, this project was born from the desire to share my passion for jewellery and creativity with an amazing and beautiful bunch of teenagers I met through Jeevan School Foundation in 2006. During my numerous stays in Varanasi, I had the chance to see them grow safe, to study and develop their full potential.
In August 2016, during 1 month, despite the Ganga river flood transforming the school in a swimming pool for a week, we have developed exciting jewellery collections that have been exhibited in a fair-trade café-shop in the holy city, and are since November 2016 for sell in the award-winning At Work Gallery in London. Half of the collection has been already sold. One-third of the selling price is given to Jeevan School Foundation as a way of funding and supporting the children's education.
Children posing in front of their jewellery display at Open Hand fair-trade café-shopClick here to see the jewellery pieces of Jeevan Collection.
To learn more about At Work Gallery please click here:
http://www.atworkgallery.co.uk/
Design and making process
The children have carried out an intensive design process, collecting references and sharing thoughts. Discussions about fulfilling experiences in their daily life lead to amazing drawings that were developed in jewellery pieces, using the etching and photo etching techniques. To complete their pieces, the children have learned and practised basic techniques of jewellery such as piercing, filing, soldering and polishing.
Pooja is drawing a peacock for her jewellery collectionPawan is drawing a geometric pattern with stencils for the development of his collection Kushboo is practising for the first time solderingPoojs is sawing her etched designPooja's Peacock Earrings, gold plated brass, amethysts, tourmalines, pink sapphireJitender's Skull Ring, gold plated brass, synthetic opals, garnetsTo discover more in details the project development:
http://www.lit-association.com/jeevan-jewellery-collection-project
Facebook Page:
https://www.facebook.com/jeevancollection/
AND NOW…WE NEED YOUR HELP!
As the children and the Jeevan staff loved so much the project and were so proud of their achievement last year, they have asked us to go back this coming summer to keep learning and practising jewellery techniques and making new jewellery pieces that will be for sale in London and Geneva. Part of the benefits will go to the foundation. They are firmly waiting for us and will be disappointed if we can’t make it.
This is why we are highly motivated to go this summer but need some support in order to make this project come true. We will really appreciate any help. Even little will be very helpful to make this happens and support this community. Also, on the long run, this project could lead to a professional career for some of the most committed children.
This time we plan to work with a larger group of children aged from 4 to 18 years-old, which will give birth to a wider range of designs and burst of creativity for the project.
A PRESENT FOR YOUR HELP
If you are able to donate £15 or a bigger amount, you will receive a present from us! This is a clutch bag ornamented with a design made by one of the children during summer 2018. This will be sent to you by September 2018.
Clutch ornamented with Kumar's drawing, 4 years old made in august 2016
Thank you so much for reading our project and for donating for this cause!
Organizer
Aurelie Dellasanta
Organizer
