Saving Our Vanishing Heritage Details the Loss of and Threats to Major Archaeological and Cultural Heritage Sites in Developing Countries Over the Past Decade and Successful Models of Preservation
Twenty Sites Identified as On the Verge of Vanishing and Losing Their Potential to Be Engines for Development for Local Communities if Not Protected and Preserved
Saving Our Vanishing Heritage is a critical call to action alerting the international community on the need to focus precious investment on global heritage conservation, a strategy that has proven to be one of the most effective and targeted ways to help alleviate poverty by creating long-term jobs, income, and recurring investment in developing countries.
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GHF Annual Fund
Some of our most significant and threatened sites exist in developing
regions, where there is little capacity to safeguard these
irreplaceable records of civilization. This is the reason Global
Heritage Fund (GHF) focuses its preservation and community engagement
in the developing world.
As the end of 2010 approaches, I extend our appreciation for your
dedicated support and encouragement in realizing this year’s progress.
Not only are we making significant progress at 12 GHF projects, we
also hosted our first Forum on Cultural Heritage in a Developing World
at Stanford University in October, as well as published Saving Our
Vanishing Heritage, a report which highlights the accelerating threats
facing cultural treasures in the developing world and their economic
value. Many have survived thousands of years, only to be lost in this
generation - on our watch.
Please make a gift to GHF’s Annual Fund today.
The Forum on Cultural Heritage in a Developing World explored the challenges facing
our most significant and endangered archaeological and heritage sites in the developing
world—and what we can do to save them—before they are lost forever.
Some of the most significant and endangered sites are in the developing world, where
there is limited capacity to safeguard their future. In the first decade of the 21st century,
we have lost or seriously impaired hundreds of our most precious historic sites —
the physical record of our human civilization. These cultural treasures have survived
thousands of years, only to be lost in this generation—on our watch.
The Primary goals of the Forum were to:
1) raise critically needed global awareness
2) identify innovative technologies and solutions
3) increase funding through private-public partnerships
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Paris November 30th 2010
Global Heritage Fund held a very successful event in support of our work in Southeast Asia and Banteay Chhmar, Cambodia November 30th, 2010 at the Guimet Museum, the leading museum in Europe focused on Asia.
After an inauguration dance by the Royal Ballet of Cambodia to bless the occasion, we heard on the importance of saving our global heritage from the Cambodian Ambassador H.E. Mr. Uch Kiman, the U.S. Ambassador to UNESCO David Killion, and Jacques Gies, President Musée Guimet, who just had returned from Cambodia.
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