About Junior Art Club
Junior Art Club is in principle, a non- profit and a non-governmental organization founded in January 2000 by Kelvin Asare-Williams, with the foremost goal of unearthing the creative and artistic talents of the children and youth in the country, especially the disadvantaged children and youth living in urban slums and villages.
As a social and an educational club we are also opened to other youth living outside the country so as to provide a cross - cultural experience and also help them gain knowledge of each other as they interact in a relaxed creative atmosphere.
We welcome donors, sponsors, organizations, institutions, individuals, and other corporate bodies both within and outside the country to join as members. The core skills required are personal interest and enthusiasm, creativity, self - motivation and commitment.
History
Founded in January 2000, JAC began with the need to help seven half naked children from Nima, a slum in inner city Accra, Ghana, with positive engagement, direction and social education. Over the course of the past 8 years, JAC has run programs in 10 community schools and have engaged 765 children and youth.
Currently JAC is operating in 5 community schools with a total membership of 125. The schools are St Kizito Primary, St Paul's Lutheran Primary, Sal-Valley Primary & Junior High School, Male dada Junior High School, and St Kizito Junior High School.
Vision
Our vision is to use the Junior Art Club as a proven social and educational incubator capable of identifying and developing the creative potentials of children and the youth through the arts so as to provide them with progressive youth empowerment opportunities.
Mission
The mission of JAC is to engender in youth age (5-18) an awareness and investment in social and community issues through art and creative expression. By using such tools JAC empowers youth to approach and address the issues that impact their worlds on their own terms in order to raise their standard of living.
More about the Club
1) We also aim to help these youth cultivate action-oriented skills, which will provide a successful path for their generation's future needs and the human resource development of the country.
2) It is also the goal of the club to use creative and artistic modes of expression to address the socio-cultural, political, environmental and economic issues confronting children and youth in our societies.
3) We also seek to create charitable funds for needy brilliant students both within the club and outside the club, so as to help them through quality higher education.
Board of Directors & Executive Office
Founder & President
Kelvin Asare-Williams
JUNIOR ART CLUB
P.O.Box GP 1301
Accra, Ghana
West Africa
CELL: 233 244237388
kelvin@junior-art-club.org
Vice President
Flavia DiMario
JUNIOR ART CLUB
LARGO F. MENGARONI,
ROMA. 00133 ITALY
TEL: +06/20630400
CELL: +00393383664734
flavia@junior-art-club.org
Attorney at Law
Thomas Wells
Wells, Jaworski,Liebman & Paton,LLP
12 route 17 north
Paramus, new jersey 07653-1827
Tel: (201) 587-0888
Excecutive Assistant to the President/
Director, Program Services
Mike Gbodjor
JUNIOR ART CLUB
9319 LBJ FRWY #112 Dallas, Tx 75243
Phone: 0019722078616
mike@junior-art-club.org
Associate
Jordyn Wells
Do Something
24-32 Union Square East- 4th floor
New York, NY 10003
Phone(212) 254-2390x238
Director, Business & Resource Development
Silas Kumekpor
JUNIOR ART CLUB
9319 LBJ FRWY #112
Dallas, Tx 75243
Phone: 512-203-7744
Silas@junior-art-club.org
Coordinating Director, USA & Australia
Kelsey Anderson
Junior Art Club (JAC)
Phone: +61 403 493 007
kelsey@junior-art-club.org
CEO
Maureen Dickson
Irish Designs
Niagara Falls
Ontario, Canada
Manager, Finance
Zoiku Maclean
P.O.Box GP 1301
Accra,Ghana
West Africa
Tel: 233+244237388
