In Calais, I met a 16-year-old refugee from Sudan. This fundraising aims to provide sustainable solutions so his family and famine-struck millions like them won't have to send out their oldest sons in search of a better life. I am raising funds so he wouldn't have to cross the Libyan desert, helplessly leave a best friend to die of dehydration, be sold as a slave by police in Libya to be tortured and forced to work in farms for nothing, and when too weak to work be trafficked at gunpoint by gangs to get in a dinghy not meant for 50.

There are 3 campaign goals:

1) £42 for a brood of chickens,

2) £490 for community seed and if successful

3) £1300 for a plant nursery.

I aim to do this by drawing bespoke artwork for donors:

Step 1: Make a donation minimum of £30 per portrait.

Step 2: An email will be given on receipt - send a candid photograph of a loved one you would like drawn to that address.

*Optional brief description of who I am to draw, e.g. favourite colours, quirks, or a special occasion.

(I reserve the right to reject inappropriate or offensive photos. These will simply be ignored with no email response.)

Step 3: You will receive a digital copy of a line drawing portrait worth £30 as a .pdf and .jpg file.

Time is of the essence, famine-struck families resort to eating leaves off trees, grass - if they are lucky - rats!

Imagine trying to sleep in the wild among scorpions and snakes with just a plastic sheet for cover - all the while, your child's cries of hunger pierce the endless night.

Act now. Draw the line. Give hope.

Stefanie