| Mission The mission of the RCC is to present the arts—media, performing, literary and visual—in an educational context, with challenging and culturally enriching programs, by local and regional artists as well as artists who would not otherwise appear in the RCC area. The Center is also the space for the creation and dissemination of media that promotes democracy, community participation, cultural preservation, access and lifelong learning on behalf of a diverse community of artists and audiences Keepers Foundation Mission To overcome prejudice, intolerance, and bigotry and the suffering they cause-through the educational use of the Foundation’s audiovisual historical testimonies. During its first phases of existence, the Foundation expects to videotape more than 10,000 testimonies which will be translated into other languages for other countries."
Although the vast majority of the testimonies are from Genocide survivors, the collection also will include interviews with others such as survivors of genocide propaganda and continuous killings that took place from 1956 to 1994, political prisoners, rescuers, liberators and even participants in Genocide crimes trials. Goal To preserve and provide access to the archive; to build and support educational programs; and to develop educational products based on the testimonies collected. As the years take us further away from the Genocide and witnesses pass away, it is incumbent upon us to teach not only the history of that terrible time, but to learn its lessons so that it will never again happen to any people anywhere. That is the summary goal of Keepers Foundation. The integration of visual history testimony from the Keepers Foundation archive is to provide learners and educators with a unique and valuable tool: the real life stories of Genocide survivors and witnesses. These first-person narratives of Genocide survivors and other witnesses have an important educational value, not only because they support the study of the Genocide, but also because they often broach questions of fairness, justice, labeling, or scapegoat—issues that adolescents confront in their daily lives.
Purpose The purpose of the Fund requested is to accomplish the Keepers Foundation Project. This means training and equipment acquisition for the project, funding the 5 provinces that will manage 62 districts of Rwanda. In these areas we plan to have continuous Genocide witnesses and Victims audiovisual testimony productions to take place from 2006 onwards. The provinces and districts will need permanent camera persons for story and testimony development on the ground and production. T o complement audiovisuals we will develop a website with, photos, documents, and more. This added feature will allow audience to delve as deeply as they would like into the issue, and to explore other aspects of the Genocide. Developing website features, andan Online Testimony Viewer providing state of the art video access to many short, thematically organized survivor testimonies. The website will also provides special educational programs, rich in primary sources, for use by both teachers and students, at all educational levels highlighting
Project Background This project is an inspiration from the documentary film Keepers of Memory. The documentary that captured memories from the Keepers of unconventional graveyards. Despite the many films shot in Rwanda many still do not know the impact of the 1994 Genocide. This knowledge is important for the future generations of Rwanda and the world too. Keepers of Memory brought the testimonies forth and with further in depth we can accomplish wide coverage through Keepers of Memory Foundation. Audiovisual Documentation of the Rwandan Genocide will achieve the objectives and goals to preserve, create an audiovisual library and Genocide audiovisual education material. This will benefit Rwandans and the global community who deserve to understand the impact and effects of Genocide. Use of visual history testimonies establishes an emotional connection as the audience hear survivors share their life stories before the Genocide, their struggle to survive, and their resiliency of spirit. This opportunity provides an opening for learning that can continue long after learners have left the classroom.
While watching these testimonies, learners can see a face and hear a voice, helping them realize that behind the statistics of the Genocide are real people with individual stories to tell. It has never been more important to pay attention to the life stories of Genocide survivors and other witnesses. Their generation is the last one to bear witness to the Genocide, making their testimony invaluable both as a historical record and as an educational tool for future generations. Only by learning, facing, and understanding the past, we can hope for a better future. The multimedia foundation will ensure that an important chapter in human history will be taught and remembered, because the next generation of children will not be able to learn and hear about the Genocide first-hand. The moral, social, political, and human questions raised by the Genocide will remain with our children forever.” FINANCIAL INFORMATION Budget Plan for measuring project results
The need for funding is to achieve the goals and objectives set to accomplish the keepers Foundation. As the program illustrates, we will require personnel on the ground at district and provincial levels and also facilitate accommodation, equipments and premises for operations notwithstanding upkeep for these personnel. Residing with the community will develop an atmosphere of association in every community we gather archive information. Present statistics from the organizations concerned like us show that quite a number of the genocide witnesses and Victims are coming out by the day both in Gacaca and other occasions to express there experiences in the genocide Added to that is also the factor of ill health contributed by poverty that is taking away lives of the victims and Witnesses that have experiences to share with us. This is a problem that we intended to intervene and positively utilize to develop a rich archive of audiovisual experiences from the witnesses and victims of the 1994 Genocide. Examples
Project and Program description Keepers Foundation is a project with the objective to document audiovisual experiences of Victims and witnesses of Genocide. These target audience has its own shortcomings of ill health contributed by poverty, post-traumatic effects and conditions. These adverse conditions are making this population die at all age levels and that denies us chance to capture stories from the victims and witnesses. So many of these target audience would like to tell there story but do not have the outlet to do so. The Keepers Foundation’s goal is to provide this outlet permanently as a continuous project. To undertake this successfully, the Keepers Foundation seeks to facilitate training programs for the ground personnel on how to work with the target audience on the approach aspect. We need to note at this point that the targeted audience is one affected by genocide and approach must be sensitive to conditions Mentioned. Program Phases: In the first phase, the Keepers Foundation provides training to ground personnel on capturing first-person testimonies and concurrent development of the website. In the second phase, the Keepers Foundation continues to encourage the community to make use of their new resource by providing local educators, library staff, and community leaders with training and support. In the third phase, local students, under the leadership of a faculty advisor, establish their own, Keepers Foundation sponsored, diversity clubs. This will be aided by short course programs on how to go about the interviews for target population. The program is structured systematically to allow all the necessary requirements accomplished as outlined in table included in document The project program is developed with this environmental analysis in mind. And the program charted in accordance to expected goals and objectives which will be the indicators of goals and objectives
The Keepers Foundation relies on partnerships to achieve three goals: to preserve and provide access to the archive; to build and support educational programs; and to develop educational products based on the testimonies collected. The project focuses on providing educators, researchers, and the general public with access to collections of visual historical testimonies from the archives, and the Keepers Foundation’s educational programs and resources will be available to the students in Rwanda and the world. Planned multimedia presentation on the Genocide is the result of a partnership with vivid features, Directorate of Rwanda Memorial Foundation and Ministry of Youth, Sports and Culture, combining the national outreach network of the unmatched visual history resources of the Keepers Memory Foundation accomplishes the most comprehensive curriculum on the Genocide. Organization Background
Current programs and accomplishments
Currently Rwanda Cinema Centre is involved in Youth by Youth Filmmaking and development. This program imparts both theoretical and practical Filmmaking skills to the youth participating. The organization has recently facilitated a workshop on story writing and production in collaboration with Swedish filmmakers. This collaboration is just one of the many that we intend to have yearly with the availability of Funds. Rwanda Cinema Centre has managed to accomplish and develop the annual Rwanda Film festival. The successful Premier Rwanda Film Festival was held in March 2005 and will be an annual event. The Center has accomplished some partnership objectives and is striving to pull more collaborators and partners. Conclusion Everyday we face and confront issues of prejudice and bigotry. 100 days Reflections will inspire the audience to confront the racism and discrimination they face in their own lives. Through the study of the Genocide, the Keepers Foundation intends to help the audience connect history with contemporary issues and develop skills to become active members of an informed citizenry, free of racial hatred. The Keepers Foundation’s unique archive of testimonies will transform the way history is taught and learned. The partnership we have will ensure that future generations can learn what survivors and other eyewitnesses to the genocide can teach: that our very humanity depends on the practice of tolerance and mutual respect.” We do hope this will inspire you to kindly facilitate the project launch financially and in Kind.  |
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