The GRACE
POLIT FOUNDATION is a non-profit organization with
a beneficial character, constituted for an unlimited
time, the main goal is to help the hearing impaired
with their needs in the intellectual, physical,
occupational, and communication fields.
The Legal bylaws of the GRACE POLIT
FUNDATION is registered in the Ministry of Welfare
under the Agreement No. 005108, of October 30,
1992 and published in the Official Record No. 131,
dated February 17, 1993.
The Foundation was created by the
artist Grace Polit, her sensibility and humanitarian
spirit was touched and impressed by the silence
and isolation that the people with auditive problems
live with.
Conscious of the serious deficiency
that exists in Ecuador in the area of post-scholastic
education for people with hearing and language
impairment, and with no governmental or private
institution to attend to their exclusive needs
in the artistic field, she considered it necessary
and important to create the Foundation, the Artistic
Education Academy and the Hand crafts workshop,
offering different teaching, training, and investigative
programs.
For this purpose, the artist has
donated to the Foundation a valuable collection
of art, an important part of the library, and also
the institution's furniture.
Thanks to the contribution of its
members and of the Art Academy that Grace Polit
directs herself, the Foundation has being able
to keep open the training and teaching programs
of the Plastic Art directed to this sector.
It's desire is to provide opportunity
for these people to communicate and express directly
to the society, their emotions, their dreams and
their spiritual and intellectual wealth through
painting, drawing, sculpturing, etc., and to give
them an alternative income thru artistic work or
hand crafted products assuring them with a good
standard of life, rescuing them from the isolation
and silence in which their existence elapses; in
this manner they will not be a burden to their
families or the society, instead they will be integrated
with dignity to the productive sector of the nation.
The Foundation assumes all the expenses
for the maintenance, communications and other needs
normal to the operation of the institution, it
also provides to its discapacitated pupils the
teaching and the work materials used during the
classes gratuitously.
We count for the purpose of instruction
with specialized teachers, and concerning the medical
care collaborates with us a firts rate medical
group. One of the goals of the Foundation is to
widen the help to a greater number of persons,
putting under way, according to our work plan,
other disciplines related to the art and crafts,
being our first aspiration the implementation of
the sculpture workshop and one of wood heights.
It is for this reason that we need
the private and institutional collaboration, for
us to be able to widen our labor in benefit of
this important friendless sector of the Ecuadorian
population.
Cognizant of your altruistic and
collaborative spirit for the cause of the needy
and because of what we have previously exposed,
we appeal to your high sensibility to request your
valuable support in the form of a donation.
With your gift, in addition to helping
us to help, you will become one of the HONORARY
MEMBERS OF THE FOUNDATION and cause that the world
will see more happy faces as those which appear
in the booklet that we are very pleased to attach.
If it does not inconvenient you,
your name will appear in our next publication as
a patron of this monumental work.
Briefly, our request consists of
asking that you will consider the possibility of
the fact that the percentage permitted by the law
will be donated to us, this money will come out
of the income tax that compulsorily each company
must pay, since according to the abovementioned
article these gifts are deductible from the mentioned
tax.
Finally we make to you a very heartfelt
invitation to visit the Foundation, which is found
located in the street Via Oriental 290, and have
a close look where we are developing the initial
part of the first Project of the GRACE POLIT FOUNDATION.
We request that you will let us know
the date and hour when you will honor us with your
presence.
Sure of counting on your understanding
and invaluable help, receive our high feelings
of consideration and esteem.
