Memory Project Supply Initiative

April 14th 2025
Sumaiya Khanom, Memory Project

The grant supported Memory Project's goal to provide handmade, heartfelt portraits as special memories to children living through poverty, war, violence, and natural disasters. Members of Memory Project receive a photograph and craft a portrait that pertains to the likeness of the child. Memory Project hopes to touch the lives of youth around the world while fostering a sentiment of human connection and intercultural understanding from the University of Michigan, to areas across the world such as their recent portraits of kids from Malawi. Arts Initiative provided supplies such as paper, acrylic paint, watercolors, gouache, brushes, pencils, and charcoal.