Relieving Poverty through the Arts:
Artwork for Change
Attukwei Art Foundation (AAF) is a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) existing in the Greater Accra region of Ghana as a charity. Using both educational and social approaches, AAF is fostered by the belief that every child should experience art. We currently focus on schools lacking in funds, urban slums and street children to find cathartic means of expressing themselves through art.
We are registered through the government of Ghana, with legal registration number G-4, 566.
We aim to expand to HIV/AIDS patients, victims of any kind of abuse, and special needs children before the academic year is over. We've done minimal work with all three groups so far in our one year of being legally recognized and plan on doing much more in the upcoming months! We will keep you posted.
Our main goal, with AAF, is to use artistic methods of teaching to educate children in Ghana about the world we live in today. We wish not only to teach these children about the world itself, but also how to play an active role in society focused on bettering our nation and the rest of the world. Our passion for art has influenced our desire to start a foundation that reaches out to underprivileged children allowing them to experience the wonders of art and what it can do to help them.
MISSION STATEMENT
Our mission is multi-faceted because we aim not only to teach children about the world around them and how they can initiate change in their own communities; we also want to create a safe place for students to express themselves through a variety of mediums. The Attukwei Art Foundation is an NGO based in Ghana, so our work will be based here, but the focus of the art education would not be limited to one region or area. Our essential goal is to help these children develop a sense of the world and ways in which they, as art students, can help.
We are registered through the government of Ghana, with legal registration number G-4, 566.
We aim to expand to HIV/AIDS patients, victims of any kind of abuse, and special needs children before the academic year is over. We've done minimal work with all three groups so far in our one year of being legally recognized and plan on doing much more in the upcoming months! We will keep you posted.
Our main goal, with AAF, is to use artistic methods of teaching to educate children in Ghana about the world we live in today. We wish not only to teach these children about the world itself, but also how to play an active role in society focused on bettering our nation and the rest of the world. Our passion for art has influenced our desire to start a foundation that reaches out to underprivileged children allowing them to experience the wonders of art and what it can do to help them.
MISSION STATEMENT
Our mission is multi-faceted because we aim not only to teach children about the world around them and how they can initiate change in their own communities; we also want to create a safe place for students to express themselves through a variety of mediums. The Attukwei Art Foundation is an NGO based in Ghana, so our work will be based here, but the focus of the art education would not be limited to one region or area. Our essential goal is to help these children develop a sense of the world and ways in which they, as art students, can help.
