More than one billion people - the majority of them children - either have no home or live in inadequate housing. Over 1 billion people live on less than $1 a day with nearly half the world's population (2.8 billion) living on less than $2 a day. The three richest people in the world have more wealth than all 600 million people living in the world's poorest countries.*

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As Arts for Global Development, Inc we hope to help build societies who fulfill their social responsibility through creativity and utilization of arts.  Let's support art activists and advocates empower communities worldwide. 

To contact artistist and artisans and also purchase their work please look at:

• NOVICA US based to reach hundreds of artists particularly those who are from Andes, Bali, Brazil, India, Mexico, Thailand
• AfricanColours from continental Africa
• Rural African Market that helps create jobs for the rural people of South Africa
• from India Hastakala Creations
• from Turkey see LEBRIZ and Anatolian Artisans
• Mogalakwena Craft Art Development Foundation aims to decrease the development gap in South Africa
• Aid to Artisans US-based NGO to develop artisan enterprises across the world and focus on increasing the access of craftspersons to markets
• Central Asia Craft Support Association (CACSA) a regional artisan association based in Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic that provides marketing support, product development training, sales opportunities, and other services to artisans throughout Central Asia (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan).
• Crafts Center US-based NGO links partners and members in more than 55 countries worldwide through its Artisan Enterprise Network (AEN).
• Peoplink helps artisans around the world create and maintain a web catalogue for free, allowing them to sell directly to clients.
• Traidcraft a fair trade organization comprised of a trading company and a development NGO.

Feel free to contact us if you have questions or want us to post your artwork/link on this page as well.

We are intending to help artists and artisans become global meanwhile inform citizens about the existing development organizations and the ways of supporting them. Please do not forget that the sale of these artworks and handcrafts will not only benefit the artist/designer, but also the community projects that they are involved in.

Please reference Art4Development.Net should you use / contact any of the resources listed on this site.

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News | Articles | Links :

- A street-kids charity in Delhi gives "poorism" -- poor tourism -- walking tours of the Delhi slums, raising funds for its rehab work by showing rich westerners how some of the poorest children in the world live. Source: Guardian

- Winners of German Rap Contest Say No Excuse 2015. Source: Millennium Campaign

- "Girl in a Cafe," presents MDGs and faces perhaps the most important issue of 2005: will this be the year when world powers seriously address the issue of world poverty - once and for all? Source: BBC

- DFID: Development Works [Film/CD-ROM] four short films on CD-ROM to illustrate some of the development achievements being made around the world, focusing particularly on Asia and Africa... Source: Department for International Development

- Big Noise Music provides funding for Oxfam, linking as well to the Make Trade Fair site. Source: Oxfam

- The banglanatak.com project formed by young professionals turned social entrepreneurs,designs and implements unique theatre-based models for effective communication and capacity building of disadvantaged and marginalized people from diverse linguistic, cultural, religious, and demographic groups in India. Source: Baglanatak

- E-business Guide developed by the Australian government’s Culture and Recreation department offers an on-line guide for cultural organizations seeking to develop and improve their use of the internet in their business strategies.

- Intellectual Property Rights Online an internet portal on Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) and sustainable development, created by the International Center for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD).

- Cultural Industries Sectoral Advisory Group on International Trade paper presents a model for managing the "interface between cultural policy objectives and trade obligations". (in pdf format)

- Cultural Diversity a Key Factor in Development by The Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS) César Gaviria

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