A British charity called the Ethiopian Heritage Fund goes around Ethiopia restoring old paintings. Their view of restoring old paintings is by cleaning up the paintings and changing the paintings. They say they are preserving the ancient Ethiopian texts because somehow the priests do not do a good job of looking after the bibles and paintings, so the the experts must come and do a bit of a face lift with them you know make the paintings of the bible characters appear more European looking. They give the saints and martyrs softer features not the asymmetric sharp features associated with Ethiopian bible paintings. As well as giving the characters rosy cheeks as if they have been slapped on the faces. I find it quite shocking that one, the Ethiopian government cannot see the damage this charity is doing and two their true intentions of changing history. Lets be honest now we live in a racist society all these charities that operate in Africa are there to give Africa and black people a bad name as if they are helpless people with nothing to do but beg. Whilst at the same time make lots of money off them. Now there is also a charity set up to steal historical artifacts tamper with any good thing that comes out of Africa as if to make it look like the paintings were painted with white people in mind. Most Ethiopian and Nubian early Christians painted Madonna and child as black or dark brown not middle eastern or blond how people think they ought to look now. Back then they were black and are black that's before this charity decided to go around the churches in Ethiopia "restoring" the paintings and white washing them.
I have one word for the Ethiopian government not all charities are nice, sorry I take it back most charities are not good especially this sneaky little charity trying to change our history right under our noses. It not only effects the Ethiopians but black history in general its being demoted and changed to make it it feel like it didn't exist. Why cant they leave the paintings alone, Africans are quite capable of looking after their own historical artifacts without the outside intervention of foreign overgrown haired old archaeologists with crap intentions.
The more people realise these charities have bad intentions the more people will look at the things they do which is messed up.
please look below at the so called work completed more like bodged work!
ethiopianheritagefund.org/completed.html
