Collective Care: Puerto Rican Responses to Natural and Human-Made Disasters in Puerto Rico

FAIN: PW-290582-23

University of Puerto Rico at Cayey (Cayey, PR 00736-4127)
Rosa Ficek (Project Director: July 2022 to present)

The preservation of and access to approximately 2,000 born digital items that document community-led responses to Hurricane María and other recent disasters between 2018 and 2022. The materials for this project were collaboratively collected with seven community-based organizations and would result in a bilingual virtual archive, a web portal on the Internet Archive, and a bilingual companion reference book. 

Collective Care is a partnership between the University of Puerto Rico-Cayey, the National Museum of American History, and five communities and community organizations to create a digital repository about community responses to multiple disasters in Puerto Rico.