Children's Programming for the Collective Care Project on Disasters in Puerto Rico: Phase 1, Designing a Storytelling Aid with Community Participation

FAIN: TA-296598-24

University of Puerto Rico, Cayey University College (Cayey, PR 00736-4127)
Rosa Ficek (Project Director: June 2023 to present)

The documentation, preservation, and interpretation of stories from Puerto Rican communities impacted by recent natural disasters. 

The proposed project seeks to develop and implement a storytelling program for children to accompany the traveling exhibition and digital archive in development for the Collective Care project. Collective Care: Responses to Natural and Human-Made Disasters in Puerto Rico (CCPR} is a participatory research, preservation, and storytelling project developed at the University of Puerto Rico-Cayey in partnership with the Smithsonian National Museum of American History and community-based organizations in Puerto Rico. The project works with communities impacted by hurricane Maria {2017), earthquakes (2020) and the pandemic to document and tell stories about local responses to disasters and their intersection with problems related to climate change and colonialism. This project will support the first phase of development for children's programming.