Compassionart: Joining the dots between art and poverty

For those of you who follow this blog regularly, I just firstly want to apologise. I completely forgot to post yesterday, as I was completely caught up with packing! I am moving tomorrow on very short notice, so things are a bit hectic my end!

Today’s post is about Compassionart, a charity that joins the dots between art and poverty. It raises money to help breathe life into the poorest communities, restoring hope and igniting justice.

This is how Compassionart’s describes its beginnings:

It all started with a sense that music really ought to be able to sit well with justice. Yet in a world of album sales and royalty cheques, it can be hard to see how the two link up. So, a plan evolved; create a little music (and eventually, quite a bit more) and use all of the proceeds from album sales and royalty cheques to support those working among the world's poorest communities.

These thoughts came first to the heads and hearts of Martin and Anna Smith. Martin's years at the front of the stage with Delirious have given him a unique perspective; across every continent he has seen at first hand the potential that music has to connect. And he has seen poverty – the crushing sort, the type that chokes hope and suffocates life. And he has seen remarkable people doing remarkable things to break poverty's hold.

In January 2008 – after more than a year and a half of planning – Martin and Anna were joined by 11 other songwriters from the world of Christian music for a week of writing. Out of it came 22 songs, but something much more; a sense that there might be something in this – that compassion and art might just be a relationship worth investing in.

You can support Compassionart by shopping online or donating. Or why not take a leag from their book and create music, or any other kind of art, that supports and promotes a cause that you are passionate about! The four main causes supported by Compassionart are:

·      Joyce Meyer’s Hand of Hope

·      Ray of Hope

·      Watoto

·      Stop the Traffik

Please support this cause, or take inspiration on how to support another!

Blessings!

Ronell x

“Make a joyful noise to the LORD, all you lands.” {Psalm 100v1}