Roots of the Work: Cuba Fieldwork Fund
A nonprofit fundraiser supporting
Ilé Aña OlofíSince 2002, our Havana fieldwork relationships are the ethical foundation of everything we build.
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Everything we build at Ilé Aña Olofí begins with relationships. Not with institutions. Not with grants. With people, specifically with the religious communities in Havana, Cuba who have welcomed us as collaborators and trusted us with knowledge that took generations to accumulate.
Our founder has conducted fieldwork in Cuba since 2002. Those two decades of relationship building are what distinguish the Iroko Historical Society from an outside institution that arrives, extracts, and departs. We have presented jointly at the Biblioteca Nacional de Cuba. We developed our ethical framework in direct conversation with the communities whose heritage we are helping to preserve.
That kind of relationship has real costs: travel, community honoraria, communication, and the time required to do this work at the pace communities set rather than the pace funders prefer. This fund covers those costs directly. A gift here is a gift to the human infrastructure underneath everything else we do.