SK Creativity

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SK Creativity targets children in impoverished areas, supporting their goals to be successful in pursuing education through creativity. Our goal is to create a desire to be educated and break the cycle of poverty.

Standings & Awards

43 out of 1313 in Asia
21 out of 779 in Education
26 out of 930 in Define
44 out of 992 in Charitable
121 out of 4003 Overall

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Saving Kids Through Creativity

“Putting creativity and education together to help children for a brighter future.”

Saving Kids through Creativity aims to take children off the streets and into schools. By using art as an interface for their creativity, SK plans to sell the products created by the children to the general public. As a non-profit organization, our responsibility remains merely to provide the children with the opportunities and resources to be able to make and market their creations.

Our project utilizes the “Big brother” concept where-in one full-time volunteer trains 10 kids and each kid trains 5 others, creating an effective network of 50 kids. As the network expands, we are able to touch the lives of more kids. Eventually, we hope to continue sending the children to schools while helping them become self-sufficient and earn their own living in an environment of learning and fun.

Over time, as the organization becomes self-sufficient and continues to grow, we plan to move out and expand to different cities nationally and internationally and cause a global change. We hope to give kids around the world an opportunity to realize their potential and be able to transform their dreams into reality.

Why arts and children?

Art is limitless. It is a form of expression, stronger than any other. It is used as an outlet for exploration, frustration, euphoria, among many others. Creating art helps children discover the unexpected possibilities of their creativity. It enables us to discover the range and variety of what we are capable of doing. We focus on children because our future depends on them, and they represent us as a society.

134 million children between the ages of 7 to 18 have never been to school.
For every year of education, wages increase by a worldwide average of 10 percent.
171 million children work in hazardous conditions

FIVE PROJECT QUESTIONS Required (60 - 90 minutes)

1. What is your innovation?

Through creative work, our innovation is to help children continue their education and rise above poverty. We plan to step into the education system to teach and encourage the importance of creative thinking. By setting up volunteers to help guide the children through the creative journey, we will help sell the child’s art piece. That money will be used to fund the project and the child’s education. This will help deliver social impact by educating and taking families out of poverty.

2. Who gains the most?

The kids who participate in this project will gain a lot of confidence & encouragement to continue their education. Respectively, a sense of self-worth and purpose will be created. In result, this will help families get out of poverty & put a roof on top of their heads & put food on the table. Lastly, the surrounding community will also benefit from this project. It will create a more educated society, improve living conditions, lessen crime, create economic growth, & break the cycle of poverty

3. Who pays?

The starting of the project will have to be funded by donors and sponsors! That money will be used to get supplies, start a website, and pay for teachers! After the project is kicked off, the money from selling the art work will help sustain the project and educate the children!

4. What is your success?

In 12 months, we would like to see the project sustained by itself and helping a minimum of 75 children! In 3 years, we would like to expand to help a minimum of 500 children and continue to see growth in the community. In 5 years, we would like to see the children in the beginning taking on and achieving higher goals in education and still continue in helping a minimum of 2,000 children at this time. At this time we would also like to think on expanding the project to different countries.

5. How will you do it?

SK Creativity will partner up with a government sponsored elementary school (which caters to poorer students) in an urban town in India and start the program with 15 children. We will train them to be creative and innovative and impart in them real world skills, which will help them create art that can be sold at retail outlets and generate other value-creating products. This will teach them valuable skills they would otherwise miss out on and help them financially to stay in school.