"Education is not the filling of barrels, but to enlighten flames."
Heraklit

To promote the artful expression of children on a worldwide scale, as well as a charitable purpose are in the foreground. Thereby we follow the aim of constant development and education of all implicated, which finds its´ expression through intercultural exchange. In close collaboration wit the organizations art projects which are introduced here over are promoted.

Competent partners
The mediation work is anchored in the mission statement of the association. Experts for art, education and mediation are involved on an early stage with each exhibition- and project planning.

Revenue wished
With each project there is a selected Non Profit Organization in center, which should be supported. The revenue of the emission goes completely and exclusively as donation back to the correspondent organization. Art for Good likes in arrangement with the supporting organization and the children to aid regarding the most urgent necessities. Either the money goes directly to a project for the children or it supports the whole infrastructure of the organization. The purchaser and interested people are informed in detail about the donation purpose in relation to the current event.

Convinced action
Allow cultural creating and open up dialogues
Implementation of inter cultural art- and education projects (exhibitions, workshops etc.)
Funding of political and cultural interest
Participative action research

Enable processes
Kids and artists work out individually and as a group cultural capital:

• Incorporated cultural capital (socialization of family, knowledge, aesthetics, behavior)
• Objectified cultural capital (cultural goods like paintings, sculptures etc.) concrete procedure
• With children and adolescents from traumatized regions thematical art processes are executed focused on painting and drawing.
• The created images are shown in exhibitions.
• Thereby we create a possibility for children and adolescents to be introduced to an transnational cultural interchange.
• Workshops in the frame of such an exhibition provide space for consideration, reflection and finally to painting oneself.

• Collaboration only takes place when one of the members of the board is in personal contact with the responsible.
• The Organization to be supported employs the promotion, education and shelter of the child.
• The organization to be supported is independent and private.
• The organization to be supported is religiously neutral and considers equality of gender.
• Transparency is ensured. There is an official follow up inform after every project how donations were spend.
• The organizations to support are listed under collaboration.
• Art for Good prefers organizations from traumatic regions.
• Art for Good encounters the organization before collaborating in situ. This way the association can act in direct interchange with the children.
• Art for good takes for granted that the children make art and will be supported and guided by experts.
• The children participate freely in the projects.
• The children are informed about the exhibition of their art work and agree.
• Art for good reject any form of child labor. The following guidelines therefore must be followed strictly: The art works is given to Art for Good for a fixed amount, whit which the children get an immediate compensation. The compensation has to be paid immediately and must fit the wishes and necessities of the children. This can be a new acquisition for the organization or an extra activity (like for example visiting a cinema).
• The revenue of the sales of the exhibited pictures will be donated fully to the organization, to further on support the children.