Elsje Celestine Finck-Sanichar (1919-2001) is tot nu toe de enige Surinaamse verpleegkundige die de Florence Nightingale Medaille ontving. Kwaliteit stond voor haar voorop, daar was ze streng in.
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Steeds meer Nederlandse sociaal werkstudenten kiezen ervoor om een praktijkonderdeel in Suriname te doen. Ze genieten van wat op hen afkomt – het moois dat dit land te bieden heeft – en maken kennis met de lokale cultuur. Het is verleidelijk en gemakkelijk om samen met andere Nederlandse studenten de uitdaging aan te gaan. Zonder dat ze er zelf erg in hebben, zitten ze in een stagiairebubbel.
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In het Surinaamse regenwoud ligt een groot potentieel voor duurzame waardecreatie via non-timber forest products (NTFP’s) – bosproducten zoals vruchten, kruiden, oliën en zelfs toeristische diensten. Studenten van Hogeschool Inholland onderzochten samen met Surinaamse partners hoe deze producten bijdragen aan ecologische, economische en sociaal-culturele waarde. NTFP’s zijn cruciaal voor het levensonderhoud van inheemse en marrongemeenschappen. Ze leveren voeding, medicijnen en inkomsten. Echter, de sector kampt met uitdagingen: overharvesting, gebrek aan ketenregie, beperkte lokale verwerking en infrastructuur, en een fragiele institutionele context. Studenten ontdekten dat veel waardevolle producten onbenut blijven, of zonder toegevoegde waarde de markt op gaan. Ondertussen verdwijnen traditionele kennis en biodiversiteit door gebrekkig beheer. Het onderzoek richtte zich op kansen voor meervoudige waardecreatie. Voorbeelden zijn duurzame voedselproducten voor diaspora-doelgroepen, community-based toerisme en circulaire non-food innovaties zoals zeep. Initiatieven zoals in Bigi Poika en Cassipora laten zien hoe ondernemerschap, cultuur en natuur samen kunnen floreren. Cruciaal daarbij is samenwerking: tussen lokale gemeenschappen, overheden, onderwijs en ondernemers – ook wel de ‘triple helix’. Belangrijk inzicht: het bos is geen voorraadkast, maar een levend ecosysteem. Verantwoorde benutting van NTFP’s vereist beheerplannen, kennisdeling, certificering en infrastructuur. Praktijkgericht onderzoek en co-creatie – onder andere in het Living Lab JSOOC – vormen de sleutel tot duurzame ontwikkeling. Het project toonde aan dat studenten met Surinaamse roots een unieke brugfunctie vervullen tussen culturen. Zij brengen kennis, identiteit en innovatie samen in een gezamenlijke missie: waarde creëren met én voor het Surinaamse bos.
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In this article, the preservation of the monumental built environment from the colonial period is related to and discussed within the perspective of heritage ownership. It contributes to a debate in which heritage resource preservation is approached and connected to several heritage ownership issues. It argues that an effective built environmental preservation policy for colonial heritage is strongly related to and dependent on issues such as legal property ownership, legislation on listed buildings, enforcement of such legislation, and the willingness among different categories of potential owners to participate and support such preservation. Especially, when it comes to built colonial heritage as an imported alien resource from a colonial past, these issues are particularly interesting and sensitive. A good illustration of these issues is the case of Paramaribo, Suriname. The national government policy following the inscription of the historic inner city of Paramaribo on the World Heritage List of UNESCO in 2002 clearly demonstrates an area of tension and difficulty between and within the interested parties. It shows that monumental preservation and heritage management and interpretation are strongly affected and determined by concepts such as ownership, affinity, interest, economic priorities, and political will. By referring to the actual problems encountered in the preservation efforts relating to the built colonial heritage in Paramaribo and subsequently explaining these problems in relation to specific ownership issues, this article throws light on a number of dilemmas. Conclusions are drawn widening the argument and contributing to the ongoing debate on heritage ownership issues and monument preservation policies especially as it relates to the global issue of managing the relics of now defunct empires. In recent years an increasing interest can be detected in issues concerning the legal property ownership of heritage. This growth in interest focuses in particular on the legislation in relationship to property ownership issues. An important aim of national governments is to use legislation to safeguard their cultural property by embedding it in law, especially, when this cultural property has a high monetary or identity value (as stressed by Fechner, 1998). Additionally, the growing awareness and recognition of heritage as a valuable economic, sociopsychological and environmental asset is receiving increasing international attention. For example, the international acknowledgment that heritage resources are under pressure from all kinds of processes and impacts has encouraged the need for an extension of international legal measures. Consequently, this international interest, often expressed in conventions, charters, and treaties, encourages national and local initiatives (Techera, 2011). An interesting complication to this issue is the question that arises where it involves the monumental built environment from the colonial period that is being preserved and restored, as it may be viewed as a heritage based on alien resources. In particular the acceptance, recognition, and role of what may be viewed as an imported colonial built environment in a multicultural and multiethnic context, may impact effective legislation. Although the discussion about the roles of heritage within a plural cultural and ethnic society has already begun (recently emphasized by Van Maanen, 2011; Ashworth, Graham, & Tunbridge, 2007), it is still an underresearched topic when it comes to legal property ownership as part of a management strategy for preserving built colonial heritage resources. This article examines in particular the effectiveness of policies and laws pursued in Suriname as an instrument for the preservation of resources. It highlights the legal and administrative challenges facing the implementation, management, and enforcement of these strategies and measures. The first part of this article examines the debate about the approach and strategy in using law in conservation and preservation policies. Then the article proceeds to introduce Suriname as an instructive case study. It describes the existing multiethnic context of Suriname and the evolution of legislative policy for the historic inner city of the capital, Paramaribo, with its monumental built environment from the colonial period. By using field data, the article continues with an analysis of the effectiveness and impacts of this administrative and legal framework established in Suriname. It examines in detail the main problems encountered and the extent to which this strategy is supported by the key stakeholders.
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Suriname werkt aan de groei naar een netwerk-economie. Lector Frans van der Reep (Inholland) vraagt zich af waarom we nog naar India outsourcen. "Men spreekt in Paramaribo Nederlands. Buitengewoon comfortabel. En zelfs qua tijdzonering is deze regio handiger dan India."
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In dit artikel wordt onderzocht hoe regeneratief toerisme kan fungeren als een Non-Timber Forest Product (NTFP) en een duurzaam alternatief kan bieden voor schadelijke economische activiteiten zoals illegale houtkap en goudwinning in Suriname. Regeneratief toerisme gaat verder dan traditioneel duurzaam toerisme: het richt zich op het herstellen en versterken van ecologische, sociale, culturele en economische systemen. Door middel van een praktijkgericht, kwalitatief onderzoek – bestaande uit deskresearch, focusgroepen en studentprojecten – is verkend welke kansen er zijn voor gemeenschappen in Suriname om toerisme te ontwikkelen dat waarde toevoegt op meerdere niveaus. Toerisme wordt hierbij niet gezien als een consumptiemiddel, maar als een middel tot positieve verandering, waarbij meerwaarde wordt gecreëerd voor zowel bezoeker, locatie als lokale gemeenschap. De resultaten tonen aan dat de Surinaamse gemeenschappen potentie zien in regeneratief toerisme, mits ondersteund door passend beleid, investeringen in infrastructuur, marketing en educatie. Kleinschalige initiatieven, lokale betrokkenheid en samenwerking met buurlanden zijn cruciaal. Er is een duidelijk verband gelegd tussen regeneratief denken en het ontwerpen van een Sustainable Business Model dat sociale cohesie, ecologische balans en economische levensvatbaarheid combineert. De conclusie is dat regeneratief toerisme een kansrijk perspectief biedt voor Suriname, zowel als motor voor duurzame ontwikkeling als middel om de biodiversiteit en culturele diversiteit te behouden. Het model is samengevat in een Sustainable Business Model Canvas, met KPI’s voor het meten van impact, gebaseerd op de 3 R’s: Regeneration, Resilience, Responsibility.
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Presentation for the Anton de Kom University of Suriname. Residential real estate in the Netherlands
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We conducted a descriptive study among first-year engineering students at the Anton de Kom University of Suriname. We analyzed students’ errors regarding necessary prior knowledge in a calculus A exam. We found that the stage of the solution in which prior knowledge is required impacts the importance of prior knowledge. We also found that many errors concerned basic algebra and trigonometry concepts and skills. We concluded that even though the required prior knowledge concerns basic algebra and trigonometry, the stage of the solution in which prior knowledge is needed is of great importance.
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As migrant populations age, the care system is confronted with the question how to respond to care needs of an increasingly diverse population of older adults. We used qualitative intersectional analysis to examine differential preferences and experiences with care at the end of life of twenty-five patients and their relatives from Suriname, Morocco and Turkey living in The Netherlands. Our analysis focused on the question how–in light of impairment–ethnicity, religion and gender intersect to create differences in social position that shape preferences and experiences related to three main themes: place of care at the end of life; discussing prognosis, advance care, and end-of-life care; and, end-of-life decision-making. Our findings show that belonging to an ethnic or religious minority brings forth concerns about responsive care. In the nursing home, patients’ minority position and the interplay thereof with gender make it difficult for female patients to request and receive responsive care. Patients with a strong religious affiliation prefer to discuss diagnosis but not prognosis. These preferences are at interplay with factors related to socioeconomic status. The oversight of this variance hampers responsive care for patients and relatives. Preferences for discussion of medical aspects of care are subject to functional impairment and faith. Personal values and goals often remain unexpressed. Lastly, preferences regarding medical end-of-life decisions are foremost subject to religious affiliation and associated moral values. Respondents’ impairment and limited Dutch language proficiency requires their children to be involved in decision-making. Intersecting gendered care roles determine that mostly daughters are involved. Considering the interplay of aspects of social identity and their effect on social positioning, and pro-active enquiry into values, goals and preferences for end-of-life care of patients and their relatives are paramount to achieve person centred and family-oriented care responsive to the needs of diverse communities.
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A new book on the work of Suriname-born Dutch artist Remy Jungerman (1959, Moengo Suriname). In his work artist Remy Jungerman searches for an autonomous visual language that does justice to the cultures of the countries that define him: Suriname, the Netherlands and the United States.Remy Jungerman. Behind the Forest focuses on his artistic output of the past fifteen years, including new work created especially for his eponymous solo-exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.In his sculptures, panels, installations, collages and screen prints, Jungerman traces pathways of pattern and imagery from Maroon culture in Suriname, the African diaspora and 20th-Century modernism.The majority of this book comprises reproductions of his work that have not been published before. Behind the Forest is a welcome addition to Where the River Runs, published by Jap Sam Books in 2019.
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