Page 24 - AHATA Sept 2nd. 2020_Neat

Wednesday 2 september 2020 LOCAL
A10

“Take your car off the beaten track to

meet our monuments and their stories”

Outside inspiration
The Monument Fund ac-
quires or buys monuments
and restores them back
into their former glory.
Than they rent it out. “That
sounds easy, but it is in-
credibly complex as most
monuments have multiple
owners due to the fact that
inheritances are split and
all need to decide upon
the selling.” They cooper-
ate with the government
office of monuments be-
cause they set the rules of
what you can and cannot
do to a protected monu-
ment. “We also have the
task to maintain the build-
ings which is an ongoing
process. The wind, the salt
in the air and the sun that
not only burns human bod-
ies but also buildings are
huge challenges. Next to
that we do education, cre-
ate awareness and main-
tain public relations about
Continued from Page 9 as there are three maps in- our monuments.”
side that guide you to the
Magic local touch monuments and tell you Sustainable driven
Some of the monuments about them. But there are Sustainability is a big thing
owned by the Monument also possibilities to have to the Monument Fund Aru-
Fund Aruba are the light your personal people ba. Witsenburg: “Obviously
house, town hall, water guide. And the best is that to restore old buildings and
tanks in both Oranjestad I can almost guarantee not destroy them to build
and San Nicolas. “We are you the magic of the lo- new ones is already sustain-
wealthy in different styled cal touch when you bump able in itself. Than we have non-tangible part of heri- and recently implement-
monuments and my sug- into an authentic cunucu the technical sustainability tage: the stories to be told, ed an electrical charging
gestion is to discover this house (country house) and as in using the right materi- the music to be played, the point for electric vehicles.
world outside of the tourist talk to the owners. They will als and techniques but also dinners that were cooked The Monument Fund Aru-
zone. The book Monumen- proudly share their family the social sustainability. in the places we try to re- ba is open every day from
tal Guide comes in handy history with you.” That includes looking at the store. That keeps it alive. Monday to Friday from 8 to
Most of our monuments are 5. You are more than wel-
meant to be lived in so we come to ask for informa-
would like to reintroduce tion, guiding and help. For
the joy of living in a monu- more information check
ment. We work together out their Facebook page
with private companies stichting monumenten
to look into that.” In their fonds aruba and the web-
office they installed solar site http://www.monumen-
panels, use LED lightning tenfondsaruba.com.q