Syrian-Armenian Archive Project
6 - 9 weeks
Can be done remotely
Boston, Massachusetts
Website development

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Member since 2018-06-20

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Project Overview

We are looking for a skilled website developer who also has experience in data visualization to build a digital interactive map showcasing the 100-year history of the Syrian-Armenian community. Our project, Rerooted Archive, has collected over 65 interviews and counting with Syrian-Armenian refugees living in Armenia and plans to preserve them for advocacy, educational, historical, and academic purposes on a digital archive. The interactive map will be a main component of the website that displays the two displacements this community has faced in 100 years-- first, fleeing Genocide from their historical homelands in modern-day Turkey in 1915 and now escaping the civil war in Syria. The map will show the routes that our interviewees and their families took, as well as include features to click on different cities or routes to learn more about the specific people who live/lived there. A volunteer with the advanced skills to create such an interactive map is valuable to us, because we have been doing as much DIY work as possible on this project with our limited budget. Despite many tries, we have reached a block with the map, and need someone with more skills to come in and help us. We hope the map can be the central aspect of our website that draws people in to want them to learn more about this vulnerable but unique refugee community in the Middle East. You can see a preliminary draft of our website at rerooted.org where the map will be hosted. We are currently updating other aspects of the making the website, and making room for the map to be hosted. Once the website and map are ready, we will host a worldwide launch of our archive.

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Nonprofit Overview

Our digital oral history archive focuses on collecting the narratives of some of the estimated 20,000 Syrian-Armenian refugees currently resettled in Armenia. It is urgent and imperative that there be an effort to document the pre- and post-conflict narratives of these refugees. Such documentation will not only capture a snapshot of this time in history, but it will also help to humanize the aggregate statistics regarding the millions of Syrian refugees currently rebuilding their lives not only in Armenia but also across the Middle East and Europe.

Skills

Data visualization
Web development