The last piece deals with the precarious position of Chad's farmers and villagers, who have been displaced as a result of the fighting between the rebels and the government forces.

For more information, please visit the following links.
To read a summary, read this article on the Action Against Hunger website.
For more on the same site, go here.
For a more recent update, read this article from Reuter's.

Action Against Hunger is a NGO that is working in this area.

The fourth piece is based on the staggering numbers of Sub-Saharan African children orphaned by AIDS.

For more information visit World Vision's website.

For my third piece in this series, I chose to focus on the political upheaval in Kenya, which resulted in many people fleeing their homes and security. For many this meant leaving areas where they receiving medical aid for AIDS and Tuberculosis.

The International Medical Corps was in the country before the violence started and is now dealing with these new problems. They have published the story on their website as well.

This second piece covers the current water shortage in the Darfur province of Sudan that has deteriorated in the current chaos.

For more information, I recommend two articles from the LA Times and the Seattle Times.
Also, if you are interested in what some NGOs are doing in the field, check out Thirst No More's website.

This is the first of five paintings that I completed for my senior illustration project at Ringling College of Art and Design. All of the work deals with current issues of social injustice. This piece depicts child sex-trafficking, specifically in Cambodia.

To learn more, you can visit International Justice Mission's website and read MSNBC's coverage of the story that inspired this painting.