Benji Reyes

Benji Reyes is a furniture artist in the Philippines, represented by the same gallery that Mark & Robin Merrill show at in Manila, Gallery 139. Benji also lives up in the mountains where we lived, in Antipolo. Currently CCDF/Upper Room Art Gallery is loading a 20 ft container of handmade paper lamps, but we have a bit of room left over, and we would absolutely love to bring back some of Benji's furniture. What do you think?? Let us know! We would need a couple thousand $$ to purchase it and load it in the container. Upper Room Art Gallery would love to represent Benji in the United States....please pray this into possibility! It would just take the sale of a couple paintings in the gallery, to give us enough money to get Benji's furniture into this shipment. Benji has a family foundation that gives scholarships to children in poverty in the rural area where he lives, and children can attend school--children which would otherwise be without an education. Also, they have an apprenticeship program that gives poor children a chance to learn the woodworking craft--they sand and treat the wood that is used in this furniture, and earn a wage.