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What started with a simple "Thank You for the Package" has led to a small community getting clean water... Today, we will handover this Borehole to a small community of above 500 households to access clean water all because a little kid said "Thank You".

A LETTER TO EVERYONE WHO WALKED WITH US THROUGH ARTIZEN When we joined @Artizen, we didn’t join simply to sell digital art. We joined because we saw an opportunity to turn art, community and Web3 into something that could change real lives. We believed in what we were building with Building Tomorrow — a permanent community learning and vocational centre where children and young people can learn practical vocational skills, use technology, create, earn and build a better future for themselves and help build others too. So we told our friends and family about Artizen. We invited people into the platform. We asked you to support our project. Some of you bought Artifacts. Some shared our posts. Some introduced others to what we were doing. Some kept showing up season after season. And because of you, Building Tomorrow raised real money and gained a community of people who believed in the vision. Then Artizen came to an unexpected end. In his announcement, René shared that he had suffered two strokes within the past month, leaving him with ongoing physical and cognitive effects. He explained that his recovery would not be quick and that, after nearly 19 years of building the work that became Artizen, he had made the difficult decision to end active operations. Whatever our feelings about how things have unfolded, we genuinely wish him strength and recovery. But there is another side to this that we need to acknowledge. To everyone we personally invited to @Artizen, everyone we encouraged to buy an Artifact, and everyone who trusted us enough to support Building Tomorrow through the platform: We are sincerely sorry! We know you supported us because you trusted us. Some of you stepped onto a platform you may never have joined because you believed in HuRya and what we were trying to build. We don’t take that trust lightly. We cannot change how this chapter has ended. But we can take responsibility for the journey. And most importantly, we can choose what happens next. WE ARE NOT STOPPING. @Artizen was a chapter. Building Tomorrow for kids and girls is the story. The dream was never about a platform. It has always been about the children. The land is still there. The vision is still there. The plans are still there. And the work of HuRya Empowerment Foundation continues. We will keep pursuing grants, donors, partners, sponsors and sustainable sources of income. We will keep serving communities. We will keep supporting children. And we will keep working toward a place where young people don’t only receive help — they learn to create their own opportunities. From aid to skills. From skills to opportunity. From opportunity to independence. That is where we’re headed. To everyone who believed in us through @Artizen : Thank you. To everyone who bought an Artifact: Thank you. To everyone who shared, encouraged, promoted, introduced someone, or simply told us to keep going: Thank you. We may have lost a platform. We have not lost the vision. We’re still here. We’re still serving. We’re still building. Building Tomorrow.

🛡️ POLY RAIDERS | BUILDING TOMORROW Our journey began in 2012. Since then, we’ve kept one thing at the centre of what we do: Girls! Kids! People! In Dec 2021, we entered Web3 and discovered new ways to connect communities, creativity and technology with real-world impact. Since then, we’ve: 🩸 Reached 5,000+ Girls with over 50,000 sanitary pads. 🎒 Supported over 6,000+ children with school supplies. 👕 Provided clothing, shoes, toys for 2,000+ children & orphans. 🍲 Supporting a school for the Visually Impaired with food. ❤️ Reached all orphanages across our state capital. 🏗️ Acquired land for the journey toward Building Tomorrow! And we’re just getting started. WHERE WE’RE HEADED! 🏫 Education & Skills Development 🌾 Sustainable Dgriculture & Livelihoods 💧 Clean Water & Community Infrastructure 🎨 Creativity, Technology & Web3 🤝 More opportunities for young people and vulnerable communities. Our goal is simple: -Build things that will outlive us. -Create opportunities that multiply. -Leave communities better than we found them. We can’t do this alone. Whether you contribute $1, your skills, your network, your ideas or your resources, you can be part of what we’re building. This is Poly Raiders. /HURYA EMPOWERMENT FOUNDATION/ 🛡️ We’re Building Tomorrow — together. Listen to the 4 year old Leticia 😁