a bit before covid i was fortunate enough to go to Africa and do philanthropic work w hope chest international. my role was the social media guy, but i ended up drawing portraits of swaziland aids and civil war orphans, and rwandan genocide survivors. i would draw them and give them the drawings, and in some cases it was collaborative and the kids colored them in. it was incredibly satisfying. these are from the first leg, and later went to sierra leone to draw ebola virus orphans.