Artist: Nonvignon Joseph Denougbeto

Lead-safety Message: Benin children representing all the children worldwide are calling for lead paints elimination for their health protection and environment protection. Children are generally exposed to lead paints at home, at school and in the environment. The lead in paints reduces dangerously their intellectual quotient (IQ) exposing them to saturnism. It is for that they are calling urgently to stop lead paints for their health protection and the environment protection.

Description of Work: Photos collaged together with #StopLeadPaints.

Click on the image or here to watch the very short film.

Artist: Nonvignon Joseph Denougbeto

Lead-safety Message: Benin children representing all the children worldwide are calling for lead paints elimination for their health protection and environment protection. Lead paints are generally found at home, at school and in the environment. The lead in paints reduces dangerously their intellectual quotient (IQ) exposing them to saturnism. It is for that they are calling urgently to stop lead paints for their health protection and the environment protection.

Description of Work: Very short film at https://youtu.be/qYVNFJSCPus

Artist: Manny Calonzo

Lead-safety Message: Promoting a healthy school environment through the use of lead-safe paints: the use of paints with no added lead helps in minimizing a preventable source of childhood lead exposure. Choosing only lead-safe paints will help reduce lead exposure sources in schools.

Description of Work: Photo taken at a school cleanup drive.

Artist: Tiffany Postrero

Lead-safety Message: Using lead-safe paints helps in building a healthy school environment. The Filipino watchdog group EcoWaste Coalition advocates purchase and use of lead-safe paints to decorate schools for a child-friendly school environment.

Description of Work: Photo.

Artist: Manny Calonzo

Lead-safety Message: Popular Filipino basketball player, Adrian Nocum, pitches for lead-safe paints to protect children’s health. Switching to lead-safe paints will protect children’s brains, health and future from the pernicious effects of lead exposure.

Description of Work: Basketball player Adrian Nocum holds the lead-safe paint logo, an important symbol indicating a product’s compliance to the lead paint ban in the Philippines.

Artist: Grandma Lead

Lead-safety Message: Both acid reflux and a rising blood lead level are very common as we age, but fortunately, eating smaller meals more frequently throughout the day and night, can reduce acid reflux and also reduce absorption of any lead that happens to be in your food. “Gastrointestinal absorption of soluble lead salts in adult humans can be high during fasting (40-50%), but is about 3-15% when ingested with food.”

Description of Work: Crayon drawing of my oesophageal manometry graph from Sydney Heartburn Clinic. Message references: Why Heartburn Becomes More Common with Age, by Canadian Digestive Health Foundation (CDHF), 26 Nov 2025; Interaction Profile for: Lead, Manganese, Zinc, and Copper. Appendix A: Background Information for Lead, by ATSDR May 2004.

Artist: Grandma Lead

Lead-safety Message: I dreamed a dream that every national leader set a sunset date for the phase-out in their country of leaded AvGas-using propellor planes, and provided incentives for all pilot schools and propellor plane owners to replace their old planes with electric planes powered by solar power.

Description of Work: crayon drawing of an electric plane photographed and saved as a sticker on iPhone 13 then collaged with skyscape photos in Paint and Powerpoint.

Artist: Deborah Hackett

Lead-safety Message: On In Hanoi, these delightful Vietnamese people showed me how to make Pho and Hanoi Spring Rolls, around the pungent but desirable durian fruits hanging in their courtyard. Even when growing in lead contaminated soil, fruit trees don’t put lead in their fruits.

Description of Work: Digital photo.

Artist: Deborah Hackett

Lead-safety Message: On my trip to Vietnam I was absolutely delighted to meet the people, to see the beautiful green water of Halong Bay where many fish are caught, to take a boat ride in caves at Trang An and to find the cooked frogs on sticks – a local delicacy – at Hoi An Night Market. Plentiful fish and fat frogs are good indicators of lead-safe waterways.

Description of Work: Photos collaged in Powerpoint and Paint.

Artist: LEAD Group Inquirer

Lead-safety Message: When I asked how best to test these ceramic items for lead, The LEAD Group’s Lead Advisor, Grandma Lead, advised that a DetectLead Kit from Fluoro-Spec Inc in the US would work well or if I drink or eat acidic, hot or alcoholic things from any of them regularly, I could test the liquid for lead with a LEAD Group Posted Kit or I could just ask my GP for a blood lead series to get free testing.

Description of Work: Photos collaged in Powerpoint and Paint.