A Not for Profit - Non Governmental Organisation : driven by Asia's creative skills, exploring new paradigms of growth with design-led initiativesThe Asian continent, home to several parent civilizations and over half of humanity, is today at a crossroads. Pressing issues - regarding trade, security, identity and the environment to name just a few- transcend our national and historical boundaries. As the local and the plural jostle with the global evolving skills, we need an eco-system of empowerment with innovative entrepreneurship to script a sustainable future for challenged cultural continuum.The concerns of The Asian Heritage Foundation encompass the cultures, traditions, public affairs, arts and sciences of all regions of Asia. It initiates programs that span research and documentation, training and transmission, promotion & conservation of the continent's diverse heritage. It seeks civil society participation in a movement for a modern continent by serving international collaborations involving cross-cultural dialogue. It aims to support projects that reconcile the frictions between people, technology and nature, between the old and new, the East and West that are manifest in cultural production and services.