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The CARES campaign is a heritage-based project driven by the quest to support the process of recovering and preserving different aspects of the natural and ecological, physical, and human environments in view of maintaining the integrity of their cultural, intellectual, aesthetic, and educational value for present and future generations.
This way, the Campaign for Recovery and Sustainability creates a convergence point for advocates of sustainable development through participations made significant by the distinctive and diverse nature of their respective fields of endeavor and areas of practice.
Our Work
We are interested in systems! From natural and ecological systems, to language systems, family systems, cultural systems, and the scientific and artistic foundations of societies, human civilization has been impacted – both positively and negatively – through the discoveries and deployment of technological innovations and human know-how.
The resources that define the different spaces of natural and human existence, including both material and non-material resources, have been explored and exploited in the long history of civilization to the point of scarcity, endangerment, and fear of outright extinction of species, systems, and spaces.
Our Means
Our evidence-based and action-driven methodology of operation incorporates multisectoral and multidisciplinary templates that enable our team of specialized members and experts develop an understanding of threatened or endangered aspects of life in different contexts. We are able to match such contexts of cultural ecology with possible cultural adaptation mechanisms by using scientific, artistic, technical (through policy proposals), or community-based interventionist solutions as each situation may permit. This makes the principle of interdisciplinary collaboration and cooperation integral to our projects.
Through our methodology, we are able to undertake such a range of community- and people-focused projects as include (a) cultural campaigns (b) documentation and archiving of family histories and genealogies as well as the histories and genealogies of plant families (c) language documentation (d) community engagements (e) building miniature museums in the forms of community museums, monuments, and memorials, as well as (f) digital museums. Ultimately, the utilitarian, and scientific and cultural value of our objects of campaign is connected to the urgency of preserving them as present and future generational necessities.
Our Vision
To promote an accommodation and sustainability of a world made imperfect by threats to the foundations of its collective cultural, climatic and civil constitutions.
Our Mission
Let’s be, do, and have.
To develop, source and deploy well-adapted and context-based solutions and methods of engagements with people, places, and polities, including advocacy, research, collaborations and cooperation, solicitation, and education towards the preservation of histories, memories, institutions, and environmental life (re)positioned for the service of nature, culture, and systems.
What we think about
To promote an accommodation and sustainability of a world made imperfect by threats to the foundations of its collective cultural, climatic and civil constitutions.
Our catchphrase, “…be, do, have,” say it all. We believe that people everywhere owe themselves the natural and inalienable right to be themselves by maintaining the integrity of their natural and cultural environments and collective identity which make them distinct from other people as may be seen in their arts, literature, native intelligence, traditional medicine, religion, festivals, or science. They also owe it to themselves and the rest of the world to preserve these constitutive aspects of their unique existence by doing all within their capacity to preserve these diverse aspects of life and living for the present and next generation. That way, they can have the material, intellectual and utilitarian payoffs resulting from their awareness and pursuit of collective self-preservation. We can have a world that can be passed on to a next generation as our civilization progress despite and because of emergent human and technological advancements.
With this as part of our vision and mission, we are constantly thinking of best ideas, resources and technical means to:
- identify cultural, ecological, social, artistic, and other extant landscapes and articles that are on the verge of destruction, annihilation, and thus potential extinction;
- help groups, places, social units and cultures find possible methods of recovering aspects of their lost or endangered identities, enduring practices and ecological and sociocultural systems, or/and articles of cultural significance;
- promote cultural education among people of different ages, cultures and ethnicities, racial identities, and inter-generational gaps;
- facilitate seamless trans-generational relations and cultural knowledge transfer in the pursuit of sustainable development practices;
- promote sustainability at multisectoral levels by stimulating a resurgence of identifiable practices of perennial utilitarian value in art, literature, spirituality, cultural economy, etc.;
- promote sociocultural, intellectual, and technical cooperation through transcultural relations among peoples and organization that may exist with the space of cultural recovery;
- facilitate community-based projects that enhance cultural revivals among communities;
- stimulate and simulate the reconstruction of oral pasts through scientific and digital technologies and know-how accessible in the era of digital reproductions;
- promote cultural adaptation within and among different communities, settlements, and groups;
- facilitate the preservation of even now enduring aspects of traditional life such as signature farming methods, culinary methods, traditional arts (weaving, hairdos, dressing and fashion, music, folklore etc.), traditional medicine and healthcare systems, etc.;
- achieve the preceding goals through the protection of such potential locale(s), track(s) or article(s) of endangerment via advocacy and awareness campaigns, as well as practical and proactive workshops, conferences, community education, seminars, community-based enlightenment interventions, and collaborations with trained experts and specialists across different fields as may have direct and indirect relevance to our work, among other potential areas of involvements.
The CARES initiative is a community-based advocacy campaign that seeks to help different groups appreciate the value of cultivating sustainable practices in relation to the “use” of natural, cultural, environmental, ecological, and other forms of utilitarian resources. Our work accommodates everything that borders the urgency of human cultural-self, identity, environmental, social and economic preservation as may be implicated in a people’s social and family practice. These also include their arts, culture, climate and climate adaptation, transculturation, cultural cooperation, preservation of cultural foundations, human migrations, settlements, dispersal/diasporas, imagined communities, etc., and how these further drive or mitigate different forms extinction in nature, culture, societies and systems.
Support Our Projects
Your donation to CARES signifies more than just financial support; it symbolizes your commitment to a world where cultural diversity and environmental sustainability thrive hand in hand. Join us in our journey to be, do, and have a lasting positive impact on the generations to come.
