Dignity Cats !

Trond Einar's cats idea was a success. People, children and adults are showing a lot of interest and curiosity... and for that, they are excused. The cats are adorable ! so cute that you feel to touch them, hug them... They awake the child inside you that you feel to play with them.

During the process of knitting, the cat gets a name and a little story that awake the imagination and let your thoughts fly in a wonderland... "Uheldig Hilde" translated as Unlucky Hilde, "Dolly Dollar", "Dolly Simpel", " fru L.V. Fransen" and many other names. Most of them has find a good and loving home.

The demand on the cats is growing and TrondE is not able to fullfill it by himself that he asked Sissel to help with the knitting on the hope that our people in Maghdouche are knitting cats and that we will bring them to Norway after Christmas. Note that TrondE had a course in Maghdouche, in May,on how to knit the cats.

Lately, the press got interested in the "Dignity cats" and the clever idea of owning a cat while supporting our Dignity Project. Here is the journalist Håvard Lillebo from the newspaper "Østlendigen" taking photos of TrondE and the cats after a long interview with us about Dignity Project that will be published soon in "Østlendingen". Dont miss it !

Up till now, people supported our project with a "pelargonium" plant so why not supporting it with a lovely wool cat ?

After the Weekend Market

Yesterday, in the same news paper "Hamar arbeiderblad", a follow up reportage about the market, updated the readers with the weekend happening news, and marked our weekend market as a yearly tradition. Well done, Rolf Småriseth !

Before the Weekend Market

Just one day before the weekend market, "Hamar arbeiderblad" made a very interesting reportage. Rolf Småriseth, the journalist, was clever in putting the light on the coming event and the preparations going on, which helped us getting a lot of visitors during the whole weekend.

"Hamar arbeiderblad" is always playing a major role in sharing Dignity's activities with eager readers.

Østlendingen

"Dignity", our project in Maghdouche-Lebanon got a full page in the newspaper today. Nils Henning Vespestad, a dynamic journalist from "Østlendingen" newspaper is following our project with big enthousiam. We thank him for keeping our norwegian friends up to date with our activities and plans for the future.

We also thank the norwegian people for all their kindness towards the project. Their support means a lot for us.

Norge rundt - Around Norway

In an interview with the Norwegian Television (NRK), Trond Einar Solberg Indsetviken explained the importance of watercolour as a serious medium of painting and as a form of art standing by itself.

This form of art is what Trond Einar will be taking with him to Maghdouche. He will be trying to initiate a group of youngsters to this technique, both theoretically and practically. Furthermore, he is excited to see which direction his artworks will be developping when he is painting in Maghdouche.

10 Favorites - 10 Favoritter

TrondE managed to mention Beit el Founoun blog in the newspaper, when the journalist asked him about his "10 favorites". No need to mention that his favorite travel place was Lebanon.

In the News Again !

"Market days are there to remain".

That is how "Hamar arbeiderblad" newspaper titled the article dedicated to put the light on the weekend market that we had outside the gallery, in order to raise money for our Dignity project. With a successfull market for the second year in a raw, the weekend market is becoming a tradition that we will continue with, every year.

Maghdouche, In the news...

Just few days before our weekend market, we woke up to a little surprise in the post box:

A full page in "Hamar Arbeiderblad" newspaper about Maghdouche, Beit el Founoun and Dignity.
Wooow! and a high hat for the press and the journalists that are following the project with a lot of interest and concern.