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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.*
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.
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- art-e-conomy is an international collaborative research and educational project, initiated with an attempt to re-think the ideas behind the economy of art and the status of art market in the post-socialist Eastern European situation.
- Global Heritage Fund is a non-profit, international conservancy to preserve and protect humankind’s most important archaeological and cultural heritage sites in developing countries.
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 gain global visibility meanwhile inform citizens about their cause-related projects, collaborating development organizations and the ways of supporting them. Please do not forget that the sale proceeds of these artworks and handcrafts will benefit the community projects that they are involved in.
Please reference Art4Development.Net should you use / contact any of the resources listed on this site.
News | Articles | Links :
- Arts And Craftworks Create 271 Jobs in Angola. The training pavilions of arts and craftworks in the districts of Kuito Kuanavale and Kuchi, south-eastern Kuando Kubango province, plan to launch in 2009, in the job market about 270 youths in various courses, aiming at guaranteeing the first job and helping in the national reconstruction process. Source: All Africa
- Carpets for Communities empowers Cambodian women and their families to break the cycle of poverty by training them to produce carpets, which are then sold at prices that guarantee the women living wages. Source: Youth Action Net
- 20-person Tanzanian workshop produces screen prints, stencils, batiks, tie and dye and embroidery. Their local business is mostly clothing, but their international sales are largely tabletop, pillows and other decorative textile home accessories.Source: ATA
- Resources on Cultural Tourism in Europe by Lab For Culture focuses on thescope and significance of cultural tourism in Europe, as well as examining the social, economic and policy context in which it operates.
- 'Our Business Promotes African Culture' - The managing director of Homes & Fabrics Limited, an interior decor and furniture manufacturing outfit in Nigeria, have said that the main concept of her business outfit is to promote African culture, adding that the younger generation of Africans are now appreciating their culture. Source: All Africa
- Promote tourism with heritage programme is an attempt to make Indian tourism pro-poor, pro-local and more ethnic. 'The UNESCO supported programme mandates to protect cultural heritage and promote creative diversity through education and cultural industries and will take off in four states -Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal and Rajasthan - on a pilot basis. Source: Indo-Asian News Service
- The Homeless World Cup Foundation is a charity that has been set up to fund and support projects based around the highly successful Homeless World Cup.Source: Homeless World Cup
-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
- VIZ Media, LLC. (VIZ Media), one of the entertainment industry's most innovative and comprehensive manga and animation licensing and publishing companies, has announced a partnership with the World Bank to present 1 WORLD MANGA, an innovative and original new series that will use the universal appeal of the graphic novel to address key global issues, such as poverty, HIV/AIDS, and the environment. Source: 1 WORLD MANGA
- "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
- The Joe Louis Theater , located in the Thai capital of Bangkok, is the only theater in Thailand that still performs traditional Thai puppet theater. Source: WorldCultureOpen
- 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.
- Bushglass project in Kenya training unemployed men in the region as glassblowers, providing their families with income. Source: OCPA
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