Heritage Aid Foundation

Heritage Aid Foundation

Prefects Resolution, Foundation Act No 921, La Paz, Bolivia

N.I.T. 160582021

Heritage Aid is a Foundation formed in 2006 by Australian Anthropologist, Archaeologist and Historian Lindsay R. Hasluck, in association with two of Bolivias leading intellectuals Dr. Valentino Antezana Aspeti and Don Jaime Martinez Salguero, to continue investigations of pre-historical cultures around the world. Presently concentrating on the Andean region Heritage Aid is investigating some of the Andes oldest civilization with excavations, expeditions and conservation in Bolivia, home of the most influential pre-historical civilization in the Americas, Tiwanaku.

The specific aims of the Foundation are investigation, preservation and education (as stated below), using a system of volunteers that will allow interaction between Andean archaeological and anthropological students and those internationally. All funds raised by the volunteers system go directly towards the continuation of excavations, restoration, laboratory work and publication.

As an independent research foundation we are able to offer the opportunity and experience at a price affordable by students from all over the world, thus creating an international team and the chance to make professional connections that will serve in future careers. South America remains one of the least investigated parts of the world, and Bolivia in particular, and as such many questions and mysteries remain to be investigated or resolved.

MISSION

To investigate, protect and make the public aware of heritage sites and objects, and cultural resources, of significance on both a national and international scale. Also, to involve students and interested public in the processes of investigation, protection and communication of cultural resources and information for increased general awareness of humanities cultural wealth of heritage and the understanding of human origins.

GENERAL OBJECTIVES

To investigate heritage sites, especially those that are not commonly included in international investigations and to, where relevant, give suitable protection and development for ongoing investigation and/or tourism.

To include in the process of investigation national and international students, professionals and interested public for the greater appreciation of the human past.

To, where possible, include in the processes of investigation, protection and maintenance, both local and indigenous communities, and that heritage sites may produce sufficient economic resources for both the maintenance and development of traditional owners resources and abilities to manage them to internationally accepted standards.

To provide protection for heritage objects at risk of loss or destruction, for display and study under controlled conditions, and for the protection for future generations to appreciate.

To raise interest in the past and the evolution of human cultures, to publish, to educate, to provide opportunities for professional experience, and to demonstrate how heritage has an important role in the present and future cultures of the world.

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES

1. To map and record basic data on new archaeological sites.
2. To run archaeological investigations on appropriate sites.
3. To organize the management of archaeological sites for conservation and tourism.
4. To reconstruct appropriate archaeological sites for conservation and tourism.
5. To create information and education activities and resources about archaeological and cultural heritage sites, resources and objects.
6. To give students, professionals and interested public, both national and international the opportunity to gain experience in cultural resource investigation and management.
7. To include where possible indigenous and local communities in the process of site investigation, management and conservation.
8. To provide economic possibilities and incentives for traditional owners of sites through tourism, education and related cultural and economic development projects.
9. To create an atmosphere of international co-operation and communication about archaeological and cultural resource investigations.
10. To provide assistance for the rescue and repatriation of significant cultural objects that are at risk of loss or destruction.
11. To create a public centre of information and display for cultural resource investigation, objects and study material.
12. To create a working atmosphere that promotes the international exchange of ideas and experience through work place practice, conferences and field contacts.
13. To stimulate interest in and provide assistance for lesser or unknown archaeological sites and cultural resource issues.
14. To publish past and present investigations, and to make them available to both the national and international communities.