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PHILIPSBURG — The non-profit organization TREY Foundation has taken the initiative to develop a sustainable digital platform that will celebrate all memorial projects that are financed by the Memorial Committee Slavery History. The objective is to make all projects visible and accessible across all islands of the former Netherlands Antilles. The committee has denied the request to subsidize this effort with $50,000 but Terrance Rey, Publisher of StMaartenNews.com and Chairman of the TREY Foundation is determined to launch his project anyway.
The project aims to design and launch a public digital platform that documents and profiles all projects that are funded by the Memorial Committee. “The website will serve as an historical archive, public education resource and as a living network of memorial activities,” Rey says. “It will promote awareness, accessibility, and cross-island connections around the themes of slavery history, memory and social justice.”
St. Maarten, Aruba, Curacao, Statia, Bonaire and Saba will all get a dedicated space on the platform that features their projects. The contents will consist of images, narratives and interviews.
The foundation reckons that is will take eight months to complete the platform. Design and research will take up to two months, while other elements, like content production will take two to four months. All content will be published in two languages: Dutch and English. The platform will be mobile-friendly and therefore easily accessible. In the final stages of development, the foundation will launch an introduction campaign on all six islands.
The slavery-platform targets not only youth, students and educators in the Dutch Caribbean but also cultural workers and historians. Other target groups are the descendants of enslaved communities and the general public in the whole kingdom.
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