It may be the ultimate sign of his youth that Ben Schumaker didn ‘t realize he was rather young to be tackling something as ambitious as his Memory Project.
Schumaker had just graduated from UW-Madison in 2003 when he first came up with the project that by the end of this school year will have provided more than 15,000 orphaned children from around the world with a rare something they could call their own — hand-painted portraits of themselves.