Why, in the poorest villages of Africa, death is affordable but bread is not?
Why do girls in rural India have to walk 5 miles everyday to find drinking water?
Why is flood-stricken Sri Lanka banished to the blind-spots of modernization?

At Million Arts Project, we are convinced that such poverty is preventable. So we work with talented but impoverished artisans to enhance their entrepreneurial expertise and help them access sophisticated markets where their crafts can earn a fair value.

Simply put, we are here to promote an industry where there is one, and to create an industry where there is none.

Our primary work has been in Uganda where, we are enabling a community of refugee women in Kampala, Uganda sell handmade paper jewelry in global markets. The income from this jewelry becomes food, medicine and education for their children.

Since January 2009, Million Arts has successfully launched and is promoting the ‘Milart’ Ugandan paper bead jewelry  in Singapore using the power of e-commerce and Web 2.0, thus helping a family with nine Ugandan children.  To find out more about our work in Uganda, click here.

Our artisans in Uganda               Milart paper Jewelry        The Children going to School