After sending 100 solar panels converted to cell phone chargers for use by the people of Ukraine, the Lander Rotary Club is launching a District-wide artwork raffle and auction fundraiser to send another 100 of the cell phone chargers to war-torn Ukraine.  The campaign goal is $15,000. 

 

 

Paintings and photographs newly created by artists in central and western Wyoming especially for this fundraising effort will be offered – six items in a silent auction and five smaller items in a $25-per-ticket raffle (limit: 250 tickets).  The offerings range from “Barn Owl Over the Snake,”  a framed oil painting by Noelle Weimann, to “Gathering the Herd,” a metal print by Scott Copeland.  The market value of the artwork in the auction ranges from $1,200 to $5,000, and in the raffle from $175 to $250.  Only 250 raffle tickets will be sold, at $25 apiece.  The first ticket drawn will have first choice of the five items offered, the second ticket drawn will have second choice, etc.

 

“Today more than ever, the people of Ukraine need our help and support,” Lander Rotarian Ken Schreuder, the project lead, says.  “They rely on their cell phones for everything -- from receiving airstrike warnings to getting medical care to sending their children to school.  Things are critical in Ukraine and we can’t abandon them now.”

 

Check out the artwork and purchase raffle tickets and bid on the auctioned artwork by clicking on the links in the story below.  You can view all of the art pieces in the Photo Albums on the right-hand side of this Home Page.  To donate to this international project without purchasing artwork, click on the link for “Raffle Items,” which offers a donation option.  For further information, contact Ken Schreuder at ken.schreuder@gmail.com.  The fundraiser will close on June 15.