About Organization
"IGBAL" Foundation was registered in Ministry of Justice of Azerbaijan on April 09, 1999 as a Non-Government non-commercial public organization (NGO).
Registration N1104.
Our organization has 52 members.
Director and one of the founders: Elmar K. Amirah.
Our organization has a lot of contacts with Ame-rican and European NGOs.
Financing of "IGBAL" Foundation comprises of personal investments of members and grants from organizations.
Mission of organization: Assistance in development of private small business of handicraftsmen, working in field of traditional decorative-applied and folk handicrafts and arts.
Purpose of the organization: 1) Make private business of handicraftsmen more productive and profitable in the situation of economic recession and low purchasing capacity of most part of the country population.
2) Maintenance of traditional decorative-applied and folk handicrafts of the people in the conditions of strong competitions on the patr of mass production goods.
3) Opening new vacancies for masters in decorative-applied and folk handicrafts and arts with further development of the market for their products both in Azerbaijan and abroad.Methods for problem solution: Study the problem in places together with specialists and marketing professionals, conduct meeting, workshops and conferences involving the public. Survey of practical measures and possibilities to solve problem and drawing up appropriate program. Experience exchanges with similar foreign organizations.
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Azerbaijan Republic is situated on the Caucasus, and we have very many traditional articles and workpieces: carpets, national clothes, embroideries, ceramics, operations on a tree, operations on a rock, miniature, sabre, earthenware production and others. Many articles of our masters are in the best proprietary and state museums of a world.
We help the Azerbaijan handicraftsmen, we train them to sell the articles and workpieces and how to earn money. We have contacts and links with many American and European state (USPAS, USIS, IREX, IATP) and non-profil organizations(NGOs).
We actively work with the designs which helps the modern masters
and handicraftsmen. We gather the information on our handicraftsmen and we organize the exhibitions and advertising and sale. Our organization also sends the employees for involvement at seminars and conferences, which one take place all over the world.
Today we issue a magazine and we organize the exhibitions. We also would wish to cooperate with organizations all over the world for propagation and progressing Contemporary Handicraft Art.Elmar K. Amirah
The Ambassador of the United States of America R. Wilson is becoming acquainted with exhibit.
During opening the exhibition.
The first exhibition of "IGBAL"
Foundation. Baku, September 27, 2000.
The second exhibition of "IGBAL"
Foundation. Baku, April, 2001.
The second exhibition of "IGBAL"
Foundation. Baku, April, 2001.
Involvement of "IGBAL" Foundation on
the exhibition of reachings Azerbaijan NGOs. Baku, May 25, 2001.
The first colourful catalog of
"IGBAL" Foundation About to the Contemporary Azerbaijani Handicraft
art. In this catalogue we submit for your attention about a hundred
works of twenty masters working in various fields of
the decorative applied art. Financing of the project from Democracy
Commission Small Grants Programm.
The speech of Elmar Amirah, Director
of "IGBAL" Foundation during
opening the exhibition.
In the left:
James Seward, Public Affairs Section Officer of the Embassy of
the United States of America.
In the right: The Director of Art Center
R. Gulmammedov.
The speech of James Seward, Public
Affairs Officer of the Embassy of the United States of America during
opening the exhibition.