Melinda Kerr

Let me tell you a story.
About something that has blown me away.
And I don’t want to embarrass Travis Easton by telling you this. I want to applaud him.

Some of you know about the world’s most expensive card campaign.

This card is marked up 999% so that when people buy it for $33 or so the $30 mark up goes straight to HEAL Africa

Many of you guys have got on board and purchased this card and in its own right it’s raised around $600 +.

My thanks as always to JR who came up with the idea in the first place and Adrian Carmody who pushed it hard.

Well last night Travis bought the world’s most expensive card…as a framed print. Now in case the maths is as hard for you as it is for me, that means the mark up comes to $799.00

He then went on to buy this black and white as a framed print, the mark up of which comes to $40.

The grand total of all the mark up comes to $839.99 and I can promise you every single cent of that will go to HEAL Africa. I will scan in the receipt upon payment. That alone will provide 2 life saving and changing fistula operations. If you want to read about that you can check out my post here

In total the photography sales and a few other things have provided 7 fistula operations, a few mosquito nets and a cataract operation.

The point of this journal entry is to say thanks to Travis. This is not about me, it never has been. It’s about the generosity of people. People I haven’t even met but have come to know and respect in virtual friendships. People who don’t mind peeling off the layers to their soul and allow their spirit to breathe and add breath to the displaced, the beaten and the frightened.

All I had to do was take the shots, it’s people like Trav and so many others who take the step…

Please I encourage you to send this to as many people as you can. Comment, say g’day to Travis Quite apart from anything else the guy is an AWESOME landscape photographer.

There’s a saying someone once told me (Travis it was Phil Cogger maybe you know him?)...

“It’s all very well to be moved. It’s much more important to move.”

I love it. And I love what you’ve done Travis. You bloody beauty.

I’ll finish off with my own saying which I want people to engage with…

“It’s not the third world. It’s our world.”

God Bless.
Peace.

PS Thanks to Peter also and RB for the generosity. They are providing free delivery on all my African stuff until the end of June. The promotional code is: melinda.