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Minister of Culture in dialogue with interest group to preserve

Aruba’s cultural inheritance

Aruba must also talk about slavery and its impact on our present in the Kingdom of the Netherlands

On the first of July, Min- in Aruba, according to the
ister of Culture, Xiomara minister.
Maduro, together with Mr.
Luc Alofs, Mr. Clifford Rosa, “It is important for us to
Ms. Nadia Dresscher and be aware of all that hap-
Ms. Yolanda Richardson pened, so that we can
reflected over the topic of accept that this is a dark
slavery in Aruba. This past part of the shared history of
first of July marked 159 the Kingdom of the Neth-
years since the Nether- erlands so we can avoid
lands abolished slavery in repeating this mistakes
the colonies of Suriname against humanity, which
and Netherlands Antilles. currently are still reflected
through discrimination and
Slavery and its impact on distinction.
the present is a current
topic in the Kingdom of the A long journey begins with
Netherlands, which also just one step, and for this
needs to receive the nec- Aruba. conducted on this topic, cess that must take place reason minister Maduro
essary attention in Aruba. to explore the possibility for in order that one day ‘an considers the meeting
To start the necessary dia- The objective of the dia- more research, and also act of apologies’ can take which was held with the in-
logue for Aruba, Maduro logue is to share with the to provide information on place, as well as a way in terest group as one of the
met with this interest group, community the informa- the dialogue that is being which compensation can steps to open the dialogue
which carries out research tion that came out of the carried out within the King- be given for the historical on slavery and its conse-
on the topic of slavery in research that was already dom, as well as the pro- pain, which was also lived quences in Aruba.”q

Six therapists will be introduced in the social sector

On the basis of ‘multi-dimensional family therapy’

ORANJESTAD – Recently, vice to the community as seeing that the method
the minister of Justice and soon as possible. used is quite practical, so
Social Affairs, Mr. Rocco It is the case that the Social it will help the family not
Tjon held a meeting with Security Council meets reg- only through accentuating
the Social Security Council ularly. It is a platform where the bad parts, but more so
(Sociaal Veiligheidsraad), all agencies come togeth- correcting them, in order
during which he received er, including Veiligheidshuis to truly help these families.
a thorough presentation of (safety house), the De- MDFT professionals from the
the new method which will partment of Social Affairs, Netherlands will come to
be introduced, namely the Voogdijraad (Child Protec- Aruba specially to give this
Multi-dimensional Family tion Services), Family Jus- course to the six therapists.
Therapy (MDFT). tice Center, KIA (prison), The good part is that this
Police Force, Fundacion method is sufficiently flex-
This involves a system- Guiami. During this meet- ible, that can be adapted
atic therapy method for ing, all these agencies indi- to the culture of Aruba.
young people with one or cated that his method has
more behavioral problems, added value, because it Finally, an agreement was
which mainly involve prob- is not only focused on one made that Veiligheidshuis
lems of delinquency or sub- person but on the whole will remain as point of co-
stance addiction. This ther- family and the whole sys- ordination, which will make
apy method will provide tem. Aside from this, the sure that when the cases
lasting help to the families return on investment is that are presented, these can
of these young people. This after a while, these people be assigned to one of these
method will seek to miti- will not fall back into the therapists, and this way can
gate the risk that the young system, but they will be be guaranteed that they
person can be locked up; helped and they will re- receive the necessary help.
and will also provide guid- ceive lasting help.
ance to the family so that Thus according to a gov-
when the young person re- The course will have the du- ernment press release, it
covers their freedom, they ration of one year, mean- was a very positive meet-
can reintegrate back into ing it will begin this upcom- ing towards a better future
the family, and the family ing September and it will for the social chain, which
itself can guide the person. finish next June, in 2023. will result in a reduced case
Shortly, six therapists will be- It is intended to start with load for some of the agen-
gin this course, in order to some cases in order to put cies, with the help of these
be able to provide this ser- it into practice right away, six therapists.q