About 120 Hong Kong children have joined the tsunami relief effort by donating artworks and quilts they have made to raise funds for victims in Sri Lanka.
A campaign organised by Art for All invited children, including some as young as three, to express their feelings about the tsunami through drawing. The vivid images included a superhero blocking gigantic waves emitted by a monster and an orphaned child kneeling on a beach.
Parents and volunteers helped stitch the images drawn by the children onto quilts. Twenty local artists
also created works for the campaign.
The artworks will be donated for auction today and the money collected will benefit Cedar Fund, a charity organisation concentrating on reconstructing Sri Lanka.
Evelyna Liang, the chairman of Art for All, said the aim was to get children to express their unspoken feelings about the tsunami through drawing.
'The act of creating an artwork deepens their experience of helping the needy. Drawing with the support of their parents, the children can send not only their love to the victims, but also their family's love,' she said.