UNITED NATIONS EDUCATIONAL, SCIENTIFIC AND CULTURAL ORGANIZATION

World Conference on Arts Education:

Building Creative Capacities for the 21st Century

(Lisbon, Portugal, from 6 to 9 mars 2006)

Surname:Ismail

Name: Rakhia

/Ms/ /Prof.

Surface designer

Position:Manager/Fonder

Organization/Institution/University: Back to Basics Training for Refuges 

Address:  21 Old Ford Bethnal Green, E 2 9LP, LONDON U.K.

Telephone (+ international code) 0044

0208 981 6312 /077 62 883439

Fax (+ international code)

E-mail Address:

Rakhia@hotmail.com

Title of the Paper, including a short abstract: The Impact of Arts Educations on Social and Cultural Issues, and economies

My cast study is a researcher for the past ten years, and mainly it will be on slid presentation, the cast study including work that I have done in London with both Somali Refugees, and none Somalis in London, especially Women who can not speak English but by been creative they can speak many languages, and can   create craft that can speaks to many different people which it can sale to, they create craft that people respect because it belongs to a culture that has tradition which tells a story,  which also tell a way of life which people do not call it Refugees has place in history which belongs to people. They do, and have done Exhibitions place like The British Museum in London, The British Craft council, City Hall in London, THE Islington Museum ects, Which this creates & promotes a cultural, Social, tradition, Issues that will have place in history children will know what their parents done in the past how  & easy it is to today, what impact it has on other works that including is work that I have been doing for the past 3 years, which the women in Somali in Hargeysia and Burco are even eager and creative because they are poor and they want to make it there livelihood and I found out while teaching these poor women and their  offspring that they real do not need much and once shown the modern way of making craft like Screen printing, pottery, designing that  they see a different Future for the lives ,and   of the their children. The work will be visual, the work I do in London is funding by different organisations but the one I do in Somali is volunteer because I go there holidays and by birth I am Somali but I am British Citizen. I believe that between the Rich World and United Nation can do greater help for Africans never ending problems or for that matter for any poor nation is to teach people art and craft in modern contests which is a to teach people their rich tradition and culture in modern way with new technology and mainchers and basically educate whole nation when you give money to a poor person you only give that person something for the day or week or even a month, but when you educate a person for day or a week or month you educate a whole family and after that whole family educate a whole community or communities for future education and growth  that way it will  there will be a lot less poor people in the world, and will increase of that country’s economies for life.  For explam for the people I have train for the short time I was in North of Somalia, it was great to see people using the skills I have trained in for the Somali women, now there is a college in Somalia who has appreroch me to work with them call Gollies College in Hargisa in Somalia that has realize that they can offer great deal to teach ART AND DESIGN AND CRAFT to it is people where they can sale their craft both in African and beyond because people in Somalia are very creative but they need a people who can tell they can get out of poor conditions by learning and so on  education in craft in the future is the key because I myself have study in London the university of Arts, and when I first started studying I want to leaning about western Art and Craft and it was only later I realise that I can learn western techongly and combined that with Somali Art and Craft which people love it, and I do.

I am sorry my English is not that good but I hope you can understand the point I am making.

Rakhia M. Ismail