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Mission - Details Dear Croatians and people of Croatian descent! The Croatian Heritage Foundation's mission is to preserve national and cultural identity, the mother tongue and the customs of Croatians living abroad. The Republic of Croatia is your country of origin and has undertaken the obligation to support its emigrant communities in some forty countries—from South and North America and Europe to Australia and New Zealand. The one-way tickets of the past century have, happily, become a part of our past. In the contemporary world, ever more globalised and characterised by mutual bonds within humanity, the development of human mobility is both an opportunity and an encouragement to meet new cultures and to launch dialogue between nations with the aim of improving the quality of life. Emigrant Croatia, estimated in the 21st century to number almost three million people, shared the fate of the many millions who participated in global waves of emigration as far back as the middle of the past millennium. Today, Croatia is undergoing a transformation—thanks to the independence it has regained and the efforts to build a modern society—from a traditional point of departure of emigrants to a land of destination for immigrants. Meetings and communication among acquaintances and kin, thanks to the planetary development of information technology, is taking place in virtual space and in real time—as such, the narrative of the emigrant communities and the land of origin has now become even more challenging and demanding. Along with this, the discourse centring on the identity of emigrants in their receiving countries is now more present than it has ever been, as emigrants—besides their once dominant role on the labour market—are increasingly taking on a new social and culturally integrating role at all levels. Along with educational, cultural and social activities, we support projects from all fields of human endeavour—from the economy to sports—that contribute to the affirmation of the Croatian name around the world. The Croatian Heritage Foundation is fully prepared—depending on the country and the cultural, political and historical environment in which our citizens and the descendants of Croatian emigrants live, regardless of when they emigrated—to become more effectively involved in all projects that aim to develop the cultural and ethnic identity of Croatians living abroad. We wish to become better acquainted with the cultures of the nations you live among and, regardless of the differences, create new projects that will, I am confident, ennoble both partners with the aim of preserving linguistic and cultural diversity—both in the nearby European neighbourhood and in the distant overseas lands. The homeland or the world, the world and the homeland—your choices, your personal decisions and the decisions of your families foster new value for us! Marin Knezović Director of the Croatian Heritage Foundation
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Naša misija - Objavljeno: Dragi Hrvati i građani hrvatskoga podrijetla! Misija Hrvatske matice iseljenika je očuvanje nacionalnoga i kulturnoga identiteta, materinskoga jezika te običaja Hrvata koji žive izvan Republike Hrvatske. Republika Hrvatska vaša je matična zemlja koja se obvezala na skrb za svoje iseljeništvo u četrdesetak zemalja - od Južne i Sjeverne Amerike, Afrike, Europe do Australije i Novog Zelanda. Prošlostoljetne karte u jednom smjeru, srećom, postale su naša prošlost. U suvremenome svijetu, sve više globaliziranom i obilježenom uzajamnom povezanošću čovječanstva, razvoj ljudske pokretljivosti postaje prigoda i poticaj za upoznavanje kultura, za pokretanje dijaloga među raznim narodima u svrhu poboljšanja kvalitete života. Iseljena Hrvatska, čija se brojnost u 21. stoljeću procjenjuje na gotovo tri milijuna osoba, dijelila je sudbinu milijunskoga mnoštva u međunarodnim migracijskim valovima još od sredine prošlog tisućljeća. Danas se Hrvatska transformira, zahvaljujući stečenoj državnoj neovisnosti i izgradnji modernoga društva, iz tradicionalno emigrantske u imigracijsku zemlju. Susreti i komunikacija bližnjih, zahvaljujući planetarnom razvitku informatičkih tehnologija, događaju se u virtualnom prostoru u realnome vremenu – pa danas priča o iseljeništvu i matičnoj domovini postaje još izazovnija i zahtjevnija. Uz to, rasprave o identitetu iseljenika u zemljama prijma danas su prisutnije nego ikad prije jer iseljenici, osim nekadašnje dominantne uloge na tržištu radne snage, dobivaju nove socijalno i kulturno integrirajuće uloge na svim razinama. Uz obrazovne, kulturne i društvene aktivnosti podupiremo projekte iz svih područja ljudske djelatnosti - od gospodarstva do sporta - koji pridonose afirmaciji hrvatskoga imena u svijetu. Hrvatska matica iseljenika posve je spremna, ovisno o zemlji i kulturno-političko-povijesnom okružju u kojima žive naši građani i potomci hrvatskih iseljenika, bez obzira na vrijeme odlaska – učinkovitije se uključiti u sve projekte razvitka kulturnog i etničkog identiteta među Hrvatima u inozemstvu. Želimo bolje upoznati kulture drugih naroda u kojima živite i unatoč razlikama stvarati nove projekte koji će, vjerujem, oplemeniti obje partnerske strane s ciljem očuvanja jezične i kulturne raznolikosti - kako najbližega europskog okruženja tako i dalekih prekooceanskih zemalja. Domovina ili svijet, svijet i domovina – vaš izbor, vaša osobna odluka i odluka vaših obitelji za nas je nova vrijednost! Vaš mr. sc. Marin Knezović, ravnatelj Hrvatske matice iseljenika