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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Toronto, Ontario – February 25, 2008 CHILDREN’S ‘ACT OF KINDNESS’ SET FOR TRANSPORT TO CANADIAN TROOPS IN KANDAHAR The ‘Hero Canvas Project’ presented by Dasha Flash’n’Friends™, held at the Royal Ontario Museum on February 10, 2008, will be transported to Canadian troops in Kandahar, Afghanistan from Canadian Forces Base Trenton (CFB Trenton). The ‘Hero Canvas Project’ is a 45 - foot long children’s humanitarian art exhibit of ‘Hero’ murals which at last count has well over 1,000 personalized greetings from our community for our Canadian troops on operations in Kandahar Province, Afghanistan. Transport of the ‘Hero’ murals will begin on February 26, 2008 when it is taken to CFB Trenton and will take about two weeks to reach our troops. It leaves the Canadian Forces Personnel Support Agency Headquarters in Ottawa tomorrow for Trenton where it will be placed on a military aircraft and transported to Canada’s base at Kandahar airfield. “We’re hoping to receive some photos from the soldiers once they have the ‘Hero Canvas Project’ as an exchange. I think it will be really heartwarming when the soldiers see the personalized messages and artwork from the Toronto Community. Children who were unable to write messages actually doodled animated pictures on the canvases for the soldiers and the parents wrote the messages on the family’s behalf” says Marja Perren, founder of Dasha Flash’n’Friends™. Canada’s base in Kandahar may not be the end destination of the ‘Hero Canvas Project.’ Discussions with the Canada War Museum are underway to consider an exhibition in Ottawa as a historical point of time from our children and community to our Canadian troops. Dasha Flash’n’Friends™ is the humanitarian arm of the Dasha Flash™ Book Series written by Marja Perren. Its mission is to bring children together to be creative for humanitarian causes. Event photos available upon request. For more information on the ‘Hero Canvas Project,’ please contact: |