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A Picasso for 100 euros. This is the bet offered by the humanitarian aid association Care with its charitable lottery. Before Monday January 6, date of the draw, and therefore for 100 euros, the NGO is selling lottery tickets with the key a painting by the cubist master Pablo Picasso. Almost all of the profits will be devoted to a program of access to water and school in Africa.
This is the second time that the Care association has organized this kind of somewhat special lottery. In 2013, the use of a cubist design had raised 5 million euros for the reconstruction of the Lebanese city of Tire.
But this year, the operation should take on a whole new scale since the NGO hopes to collect no less than 20 million euros. The objective is to provide access to water to 200,000 people in Cameroon, Madagascar and Morocco.
By facilitating the collection of water, the association believes that women and girls - often responsible for these tasks - will instead be able to go to school or set up small businesses.
As for participating in the lottery, it is a good action that is not entirely disinterested because they all hope to hit the jackpot: a painting by Pablo Picasso worth a million euros. A still life currently on display at the Picasso Museum in Paris, an oil on canvas dated 1921 that represents a piece of newspaper and a glass of absinthe.