Issa believes he can fly to provide clean water to his village in Cameroon.

The Street Art Performance in Santa Fe NM - USA

Issa Nyaphaga AKA The "Artoonist" an artist based in the U.S. and the founder of HITIP (Hope International for Tikar) a community-based organization in Cameroon, West Africa, will be walking through the city of Santa Fe with a bucket of water on his head this Friday May 5, 2017. The artist is reprising the duty he used to do growing up in a rural village in the Tikar tribe. Like other children in the village, he supplied water to his family for the daily cooking.

These photos were shot in the Spring 2013 in the campus of the University of Art and Design where the Santa Fe Art Institute is located. That's where the artist will be starting his walk this Friday at 4PM local Time, to the Mill Contemporary Gallery off Canyon road where the opening of his exhibition is taking place.
Issa Artoonist is commenting the story behind this photos: "That Spring 2013, I was teaching Art, Social Justice & Creative Expression at the Community College...

... One of my students, Shelly Gore, asked me if she could photograph me dancing body painted around the architecture built by Ricardo Legorreta? It didn't occur to me that a student will see his teacher as a muse, I didn't resist to try the experience -- Art has helped me see life as a playground. The result was quite satisfying".

Issa added: "As time passes, in my own mind, even though I'm trapped in my body that's aging, I'm still feel like that village child building, who also used to build his own toys with found objects and carrying water".

Issa Artoonist will build a costume out of recycled plastic bottles for his Friday street performance. Issa was selected by Santa Fe Art Institute for the "Water Rights Residency" Program. His “Water for Social Peace” in Cameroon won the 2012 Global Rotary Peace Award in Berlin.

Check out and support Water for Social Peace in Cameroon here: http://www.hitip.org/en/projects/water-for-social-peace

The Biale Rebbe of Bnei Brak

The Biale Chassidic dynasty descends from the Rebbe Rabbi Yitzchak Yaakov Rabinowitz of Biala. He was descended from the Rebbe Rabbi Yaakov Yitzchak of Pshiskhe known as the “Yid Hakadosh” (The Holy Jew). The Yid Hakadosh was a disciple of the Chassidic Rebbe, the Chozeh (Seer) of Lublin. The Chozeh of Lublin was a disciple of Rabbi Elimelech of Lizensk, who was a disciple of the Maggid (Preacher) of Mezritch, who was a disciple of the Baal Shem Tov, the founder of the Chassidic movement. After the Holocaust the dynasty was spread to Israel by a member of the Biale dynasty in an uninterrupted male line, Rabbi Yechiel Yehoshua of Biale whose son the Rebbe David, author of Lahavas Duvid of Bnei Brak, survived the Holocaust and was appointed by his father to lead Yeshivas Biale, the advanced religious school of the Bnei Brak, Biale Chassidim. After Rabbi Yechiel Yehoshua passed away, the Lahavas Duvid succeeded him as Rebbe, and his son, Rabbi Yaakov Menachem, succeeded his father as head of the Yeshiva. There he instilled in his students, Torah and morals, and despite his young age, became a renowned educator.

After his father's passing he succeeded him as Rebbe. Continuing in the Biale dynasty's emphasis of helping those in need, the Biale Rebbe of Bnei Brak has been busy in addition to building new yeshivas, and synagogues in the periphery cities, he also established a foundation, the "Chasdei Duvid (kindness of Duvid (David)) Foundation," to help widows, orphans, and needy families.

The Rebbe’s main concern, to which he devotes all his powers, is the program for orphans in the yeshiva in Jerusalem. From when many tragedies came to the attention of the Rebbe, including children whose parents were killed in terrorist attacks, and do not have anyone else to provide for their educational and physical needs, the Rebbe ordered the opening of a special department for these orphans. To these poor children are supplied the best teachers and mentors, who act as fathers and mothers for them. These children receive all their needs from the Biale institutions, including clothes and footwear, residence, tuition fees, and all expenses.

Biale advocates relate that one time the day before the Passover festival, after the Rebbe returned from a long trip abroad, as soon as he got off the plane he went immediately to visit “his children”—the orphans. He immediately convened the staff, and informed them that before the holiday he wants to buy new clothing of superb quality for the orphans. Only after seeing that all the needs of the orphans are taken care of, did he return to his home to his biological children.

The Rebbe has a reputation as a miracle worker and spends his day offering his prayers and advice to the many who ask his advice and help.

Edited and sometimes directly quoted from http://www.bialaisrael.com/articles-biala-rebbe-news.html and more online about the Biale Rebbes and from the book Chassidic Rebbes whose author Rabbi Tzvi Rabinowicz is the son of a Bialer Rebbe

It is always moving to see Chassidic Rebbes visiting with their Chassidim the graves and holy places in Eastern Europe that were abandoned after the Holocaust. The below is an example.