OUR MISSION

The Global Art Initiative's mission is to break the poverty cycle for disabled artists in Third World Countries. We are a non-profit focused on education and the sale of original artwork to benefit handicapped artists globally. We engage children and adults in art projects geared to developing an understanding of disability and the awareness that artistic ability is not limited by a disability.  Our hope is that through their experience with the Global Art Initiative, participants will take compassionate action, becoming donors in the larger shared humanitarian project.

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Haiti

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Focus on Haiti

Haiti, a country desperately in need of good news, has come under the radar of the Global Art Initiative. Our strategy is to bring honor to Haiti as some of their artists are beginning sports training with their eyes on the Olympic Stadium for the 2012 Paralympic Games in London. Their accomplishments will make them immediate heroes in Haiti and lift the status of all disabled who are considered a curse and often spit upon.

March 2009 - Reaching Upward Tree Project

Students attending the St. Vincent's School for the Disabled in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, display art produced in the Global Art Initiative's Reaching Upward Tree Project.