A network of angels.

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The Unitehope Angel was created in 2005 by Swedish artist Lehna Edwall. The Angel is the symbol for the Unitehopeproject, a movement she initiated with a group of friends.
For five years she had nurtured the idea that people would like a guardian angel in their garden or in their house, symbolizing the good and positive in life. A kind of being that could keep watch over and help them.
2004 was a chaotic year. The bombing in Madrid on March 11 and the following Beslan school incident later that same year.

”Suddenly I felt that my angel could have a different meaning”, Lehna explains. I decided to create a force of hope, love and compassion. The Angel, made of concrete, 70 cm high and 30 kg, should be the symbol. 
”A network of angels around the globe, with a message of hope, love and compassion to all mankind.”

The Unitehopeproject was born
 

Together with friends she started to plan the first phase of the project.Seven places were chosen. Emae in Vanuatu in the South pacific, Mount Buffalo in Australia, the Ural mountains in Russia, Kita in Mali, Urubamba in Peru, Mount Nansen in Canada and finally Big Island of Hawaii, USA. “By travelling with a Unitehope angel and presenting it as a gift to a place and its people we would connect people all around the world”.
After receiving permission from the countries in which the statues where to be placed, twelve people travelled from Sweden to place the first seven angels at their destination.
On the 17 September 2005, noon local time, the Unitehope project was manifested. Beginning in Vanuatu and ending on Hawaii. A gigantic movement around the globe started.
 

By uniting the seven initial locations with each other, a net over the globe was created. In so doing 42 new locations were found at the points of intersection. Making a total of 49 locations for the Unitehope Angels. Since then many more locations have received a Unitehopeangel by private initiatives.

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We believe in the power of giving,

that every person and choice matters,

that the smallest light can illuminate the deapest darkness
and that each and everyone have the power to create change.
 

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The project welcomes everyone to particiapte!

 

 

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