When Solar Cookers International in Sacramento named Louise Meyer the Volunteer of the Year and printed her name in their newsletter, a young Congolese artist took notice. At the time, though Lunda was living in a refugee camp in Zimbabwe, having fled the violence that killed his entire family in the Congo, he sent Louise some of his artwork and the two of them struck up a correspondence. A few years later, through collaboration with Lony Kiza, a fellow refugee also from Democratic Republic of Congo, Lunda and others produced powerful drawings on the topic of environmental protection. The...more