wyart foundation






	We have not solicited for funds from the start knowing that the task ahead is enormous and it could be really cumbersome soliciting for funds.




		The Women and Youth Art Foundation (WYART) Project is a not-for-profit, non-governmental, non-political organization devoted to generating wealth through the development of the arts.



	WYART realizes that if you train a woman, you train a whole nation. When a woman acquires a skill, she is very likely to pass it on to her children. So, in this way the whole family is empowered. As an art for empowerment programme, we intend to transform the lives of women

Nigeria ´s size and influence in the West African sub region makes its efforts at social and economic development deserving of every support, yet genuine development is difficult to sustain in an environment of mass poverty. With half of the 249 million population of the sub region living in the country,

Why art? Because Art is life and Art is beauty. So we try to put in beauty into the lives of people by empowering them through skill acquisition. Art is one aspect through which Nigeria has contributed meaningfully to world civilization. We have had a rich traditional past and our heritage is of great renown through the various artistic traditions

and with her accounting for 55 per cent of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of the ECOWAS corridor, the tasks and challenges of supporting its development policy options and reinforcing the consolidation of its economy is among the most important civic work in Africa today. Besides a truly functioning state structure, experts in development studies posit that of all the vital variables for democratic consolidation,

The main mission of this Foundation is to empower women and youths, without any discrimination based on class, religion or age. We have trained so many women and youths in local and urban communities and also through religious groups that identify

We hold several workshops throughout Nigeria with youth groups and women all year round. These workshops are mostly done by invitation while we usually provide materials and teach for free. The second type of workshop holds annually usually in August and December. In the last two years,

for lack of funding, we have only been able to organise only one workshop in August. We ask that each participant contributes a token towards the cost of art materials. Our greatest impact has been through the educational vocational training VCDs that we produce.

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