Noa'ia 'e mḁuri gagaj 'atakoa!


We are raising funds for a unique project to help honor &amp; document the island of Rotuma and it’s beautiful culture.


Project Scope: Rotuman peoples living in diaspora have a deep desire to learn, appreciate, preserve, and respect our shared heritage. Using 360-degree photography and interactive digital design and storytelling, this project will take you on a virtual tour of Rotuma with stops along the way documenting cultural heritage, Rotuman wisdom, Rotuman language, geographic &amp; ecological insight, and personal stories.


Urgency of the Project - Preserving an Endangered Language: The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) listed the Rotuman language as one of the most endangered languages in the world, with only 15,000 speakers globally. Approximately 1,500 Rotuman people currently live on the island. To date, it is undocumented how many individuals of Rotuman heritage exist around the world. Currently, Rotuman people are often left culturally uncategorized as a Pacific ethnic group.


Urgency of the Project - Climate Change: Scientists are increasingly concerned that small island nations in the Pacific are more vulnerable to the effects of climate change as rising sea levels, storms, and coral bleaching increase due to environmental change. In Fiji alone, more than 40 low-lying communities are earmarked to be relocated to upper ground because of rapid sea level rise.  {<a href="https://www.e-ir.info/2020/01/09/climate-change-and-the-sinking-island-states-in-the-pacific/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Source</a>}


Team: This project will be spearheaded by <a href="https://motiv8fiji.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Jonathan Fong</a>  &amp; <a href="https://www.starhitchpr.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Kathy Weber-Bates</a> , first cousins descended from Saolei/Savlei and Lau. Jonathan brings a wealth of professional videography, photography, web development, and humor to the project. Kathy brings two decades of professional experience in journalism, storytelling, videography, graphic design, and public relations to the project. Together, these Rotuman cousins aim to help create an interactive web tour of Rotuma for all of our kaunohoga to learn, honor, respect, appreciate, and preserve.


Funding: To help support travel expenses, video editing, web design/ hosting, digital storage, and graphic design, we are fundraising $8,000 (USD) or $16,000 (FJD) to help supplement the personal expenses already going into the project. A donation of any amount will go toward our 360-degree virtual tour of Rotuma with related research, storytelling, basic language and translation information, cultural, geographic, and historical context to be embedded into the tour to create a content-rich tribute to our island heritage.


Community building: One of the aims of the project is to identify and connect the international community of Rotuman-descendants. Through these connections, we seek to collaboratively explore our shared experiences in diaspora, knowledge, wisdom and shared desire to honor, respect, and preserve Rotuman cultural heritage. The ultimate purpose of community-building is to create space for our children, and grandchildren to feel welcome to seek connections to their Rotuman heritage.   Sustainability:   We anticipate that through the development of this project, we may create a replicable model of cultural preservation and storytelling for Pasifika peoples, which is crucial given rising ocean levels affecting low-lying communities throughout Oceania.   The founders of the project have a long-term vision and commitment to seeing this passion project come to life and to continue as a gift to all Rotuman peoples. Moving forward through the project, we seek partners to share their knowledge, time and talents to keep The Rotuma Project a living and dynamic curation of cultural content. In the future, we hope to engage Rotuman youth so they may also gain valuable cultural and mentored professional experience in working on the project.   Consideration: We acknowledge the spiritual strength of our ancestors, the beautiful potential of the next generation, and we share our respect and gratitude to God, the land, the ocean, our Rotuman Chiefs, leaders, and our kaunohoga around the world. 


Noa'ia 'e hanisi. Alalum makikia. Fḁiåkse'ea.


 

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