Welcome to the Mabuhay Project.

I envision Mabuhay Project to be a collaboration of Filipino Artists all over the world, creating works of art celebrating our diverse culture and to give back to our Kababayans in need, wherein all proceeds (minus paypal fees) will go to a different Philippine charity, organization, school, etc. Ideally, depending on public response and amount of artist contributions, we would like to be able to donate to a new charity each month.

Currently, I am working with two other Pinay digital scrapbook product designers, who are based in the Philippines: Aimee Designs and LorieM Designs. We look forward to releasing our first charity kit called "Crop Dreams" for sale at Kjoistudios.com, this October '08 - just in time to celebrate Filipino American Heritage month. We hope to donate proceeds for our collab kit to the APL Benefit. A.P.L. BENEFIT focuses exclusively on international works in the Philippines and Asia, for example, APL Benefit supports the Pearl S. Buck Foundation. It was envisioned by Apl.de.Ap (Allan Pineda Lindo), a Filipino-American founding member of the Black Eyed Peas, as a way for him to give back to his homeland.

If you would like to participate in the collaboration, please email me at cactusmango@gmail.com for details.

I also want to take time to write about Blog Action Day 2008. I have joined under my design blog cactusmango.blogspot.com Blog Action Day will unite bloggers all over the world on October 15th, to discuss the global issue of poverty. Please join the conversation here >