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Call For Proposals | Cultural Emergency Response Programme | Prince Claus Fund & Whiting Foundation

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                                                                                                               CALL FOR PROPOSALS First aid to documentary heritage under threat GENERAL INFORMATION The Prince Claus Fund, through its Cultural Emergency Response programme (CER), and the Whiting Foundation announce a new call for proposals for projects in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean to safeguard documentary heritage that is acutely threatened by recent conflict or other disaster , whether natural or man-made. Manuscripts, rare books, archives, tablets, inscriptions, and other kinds of documentary heritage are living records of the ideas of bygone eras, sometimes the only form in which the past survives. Whether they are housed in libraries or held by families who have passed them down from generation to generation, they are cherished by the people who watch over them as objects of historical importance and deep local meaning. They are also