From SPARC Think Tank
Sunday, March 10, 2019
By Omar M. Ali
You will need to go back a bit in the project history of the AFA (NGO).
Notes can be found under (http://pppachieve.blogspot.com/), among others, organized SPARC 1994 - 1996 LIFE (Lahore International Festival of EduTainment), in which a bridge between traditional art, here: arts and crafts, including dolls from AFA and HiTechArt, including computer graphics, in cooperation with the DGFK
In the Directory (see in http://pppachieve.blogspot.com/) you can find the village project listed as Vocational Training Center under the supervision of Dr. Senta Siller.
Although a lot of time has passed, there is still the opportunity to officially accredit the former Women Art Center, now called SSDC, through NAFTTC, so that craftsmanship skills can be further improved and the knowledge passed on to newcomers.
This will also allow the NGO to revitalize SHE (School for home economics, see: https://archive.org/details/SHEProject) and set a mark for special development in the region, not just to trainers from the area, but also students from various disciplines can be included.
Labels: AFA, DGFK, FPAC, IPC, Lahore-Berlin, Omar M. Ali, Prof Dr Norbert Pintsch, Senta Siller Design Centre
posted by S A J Shirazi @ 10:13 AM,
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What to do?
Wednesday, September 19, 2018
Discussion event during a SPARC meeting in Lahore with Friends of the SSDC*** in TGD**.
While a lot is being said about freedom in a world of consumption, digitization and globalization, environmental protection and nature conservation in legal terms, but their implementation in an industrial environment is more than questionable.
Also, unselfishness and self-help may theoretically be mentioned, but practically it is not implemented.
The religion of wealth is not only believed in, but it is also practiced. Meanwhile, charitable models practically disappear in nothingness!
Self-involved and affected people in self-help projects behave as in the usual institutions and organizations, - regular income, leisure and progress are the criteria in urban life. This is in strong contrast to the goals of selfless-serving, philanthropy and self-help!
The impossibility of realizing this world-wide is not recognized at all, on the contrary, more and more resources are destroyed, preserved as values. The wealth of a country is based on industrial indicators. This affects the simple areas, including the rural area. Industry and mass production gain in importance.
Opportunities are not recognized or perceived and the orientation towards urban life and its prosperity psychosis grows.
New values and possible goals are ignored!
Projects that could give achieve such goals are not injected with man-power!
Wherever a cautious, sustainable development is possible, we close our eyes.
Modest touristic developments (guest houses, display of local history), cultural exchange (artists in residence, student visits from urban into rural), cooperation with other, similar NGOs, are not given importance. This is how the simple people in the rural areas help to cut down on the already little piece of economic independence they are sitting on.
What is need of the hour?
An unselfish, energetic person who sets a good example - who loves his traditional culture but thinks ahead of the ruling elites!
But in election this will not convert into votes ......
* Anjuman-e-Falah-e-Aama
** Thatta Ghulamka Dhiroka
*** Senta Siller Design Centre
Labels: DGFK, FBTC, FPAC, Norbert Pintsch, Senta Siller Design Centre, SPARC-Project, Thatta Kedona
posted by S A J Shirazi @ 3:23 PM,
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