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Waraporn Suwatchotikul, project manager and architect at Wat Chaiwatthanaram, Thailand.
This 2024 World Monuments magazine article spotlights how over the last three decades of WMF’s work in Southeast Asia, the NGO has modeled gender parity in the workplace, setting an example for local peer organizations by offering equal employment and exchange opportunities and expanding educational training for women.
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Ancient Town of Huaquis (2023) by Rafael Schmitt / Instituto de Montaña
Since its election in the Watch 2022-2024, the Yanacancha-Huaquis Cultural Landscape has not ceased to surprise us with its rich heritage, community participation, and the joint efforts of different actors to recover the ancestral water management systems that constitute current alternatives to face the impacts of climate change.
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Ancient Town of Huaquis (2023) by Rafael Schmitt / Instituto de Montaña
Desde su elección en el Watch 2022-2024, el Paisaje Cultural Yanacancha-Huaquis no ha dejado de sorprendernos por su rico patrimonio, participación comunitaria y los esfuerzos conjuntos de diferentes actores en recuperar los sistemas ancestrales de manejo del agua que constituyen alternativas actuales en para hacer frente a los impactos del cambio climático.
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Conservators' evaluation of the exterior of Building 1 of Pajatén (2023) by Heinz Plenge Archive
Luego de la misión exploratoria realizada durante el 2022, nuestros equipos de los componentes de investigación y conservación arqueológica y monitoreo ambiental ingresaron al Parque Nacional Río Abiseo (PNRA) entre julio y octubre de este año para realizar intervenciones enfocadas en los caminos de acceso y en los sitios arqueológicos de Los Pinchudos y Gran Pajatén.
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A view of the cinesphere, Ontario Place, Toronto, Canada, 2020.
In 2020, WMF named Canada’s Ontario Place to the World Monuments Watch, a biennial selection of 25 of the world’s most significant heritage sites in need of immediate attention. The Toronto public waterfront site’s selection for this internationally recognized program placed it alongside such renowned places as Easter Island, Chile, and Notre-Dame of Paris, France. The choice affirmed that Ontario Place is a modernist icon worthy of protection.
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Exterior view of the Fabric Synagogue, Lipot Baumhorn masterpiece, 2021.
When World Monuments Fund (WMF) first began our Jewish Heritage Program, it was with the specific goal of preserving and revitalizing historic Jewish sites in post-communist countries in Central and Eastern Europe. The Fabric Synagogue, a 2022 World Monuments Watch site located in the Romanian city of Timişoara, in many ways recalls the kinds of projects we focused on in those early years.
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La Inmaculada School, Pataz, La Libertad
A central part of World Monuments Fund’s (WMF) ongoing work at Río Abiseo National Park (PNRA) is promoting not just the protection of the park’s incredible monuments but the cultural heritage identity of its surrounding communities.
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