WORLD CRAFTS COUNCIL
(WCC AISBL) INTERNATIONAL

The World Crafts Council-Asia Pacific Region (WCC-APR) forms the largest and most active part of the World Crafts Council (WCC). As it is the Daughter Organization of the Mother Organization, the World Crafts Council (WCC), it carries its traits of being a non-government with a NGO status at UNESCO.

The Asia Pacific Region covers the Asian countries stretching from the furthest West end (Lebanon, etc.), to the furthest East end (Japan, etc.), including from the Pacific (Australia, New Zealand and a constellation of islands in the South Pacific Ocean). Such a frame engulfs within the following six sub-regions:

 

West Asia: Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, UAE

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Central Asia: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan

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South Asia: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka

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South-East Asia: Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos PDR, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam

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East Asia: China, Hong Kong-China, Japan, Mongolia, North and South Korea, Taiwan-China

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South Pacific: Australia, New Zealand and the South-Pacific Islands

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Objectives

The main objectives of the organization is to ensure the status in each country of the Asia Pacific Region as a vital part of the cultural scenario by developing and strengthening it. 

1. To revive languishing crafts in these regions.

2. To improve the quality of life of the craftsperson of the Asia Pacific Region.

3. To enhance the quality of crafts.

4. To promote, develop, maintain, strengthen and ensure status of crafts as an

     important medium of artistic expression.

5. To serve as an agency of co-operation between member countries in general.

6. To offer technical assistance by training courses, workshops and financial

    assistance to craftspersons through the establishment of an Asia Pacific Craft

    Fund.

7. To disseminate knowledge by lectures, seminars, etc.

8. To provide a network and fellowship among craftspersons of the various nations,

    and to ensure that they are in communication with each other.