India’s earliest Chinatown is home to minority communities seeking recognition for their history and urban revitalization to support their way of life.
The traditional territory of the Carrizo Comecrudo Tribe of Texas threatened by natural resource extraction and desecration of ancestral lands requires formal legal recognition to ensure its future.
A survivor-led effort seeks to transform a former government institution for Aboriginal boys forcibly taken from their families into a place of truth-telling and healing.
The Historic Water Systems of India project is an opportunity to address intersecting contemporary issues, including the impacts of urbanization and climate change on access to clean water.
In January 2022, WMF announced funding to support emergency response and restoration efforts in the Peruvian town of La Jalca Grande, struck by a 7.5-magnitude earthquake.
Fourah Bay College in Freetown became a magnet for English-speaking Africans on the West Coast and remained the only European-style university in western Africa for more than a century.
The Mosul Museum Rehabilitation Project aims to rehabilitate the second largest museum in Iraq and one of the few modernist structures still existing in Mosul after it was heavily damaged by the Islamic State.
WMF and the Ministry of Information, Cultural Affairs and Tourism are developing a plan for the preservation and reuse for the birthplace of the nation of Liberia, where freed slaves from America landed in 1822.
The Spanish-inspired Batete Church, located on the west coast of Bioko Island, is the cherished and regularly-used parish church for the village of Batete and badly in need of repair.
This temple, dedicated to the mother goddess Ninmakh in the sixth century, was first excavated by archaeologists of the Koldewey Expedition (1899–1914) and later re-excavated and reconstructed by Iraqi archaeologists.