Artist Lily Yeh, founder of Philadelphia's Village of Arts and Humanities, has a new organization called Barefoot Artists, which "brings the transformative power of art to the most impoverished communities in the world." Their current focus is the two-year Rwanda Healing Project, which will engage 100 female-headed families from the Survivors Village in the Cyanzarwe District and dozens of workers and volunteers from the nearby city of Gisenyi. Activities include the transformation of Survivors Village and The Genocide Memorial Park honoring genocide victims from the Rugerero area, where over 800,000 people were slaughtered within 100 days in 1994. "Making art in stark environments like these generates a positive and powerful energy, the likes of which I have not experienced anywhere else," reports Yeh. [LINK]