April 7, 2008
Bloomberg News
Sodis, which provides drinking water in poor countries, is to benefit from the sale of a nude photograph of France's first lady, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, after another charity rejected the cash offer.
Art collector Gert Elfering had first intended to keep the proceeds from the sale of the picture and others at Christie's International, New York on April 10. After the Bruni-Sarkozy picture received publicity, he decided to offer the profit from the one image to Fondation Kantha Bopha, a children's hospital in Cambodia that has a base in Switzerland.
"I refused the offer," Kantha Bopha's founder, Beat Richner, said in an e-mail yesterday, "partly out of respect for the French and the Cambodian governments." Accepting money from the sale of such an image would "trivialize the institution of Kantha Bopha, and some regular donors may begin to wonder."
Art collector Gert Elfering had first intended to keep the proceeds from the sale of the picture and others at Christie's International, New York on April 10. After the Bruni-Sarkozy picture received publicity, he decided to offer the profit from the one image to Fondation Kantha Bopha, a children's hospital in Cambodia that has a base in Switzerland.
"I refused the offer," Kantha Bopha's founder, Beat Richner, said in an e-mail yesterday, "partly out of respect for the French and the Cambodian governments." Accepting money from the sale of such an image would "trivialize the institution of Kantha Bopha, and some regular donors may begin to wonder."
1 comment:
Kantha Bopha is a joke. The hospital refused to aid victims of a bombing attack, showing that it is an arm of the CPP.
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