OREANDA-NEWS. September 15, 2015. Ford Motor Company Fund is building on its commitment to education by teaming with USC Shoah Foundation – The Institute for Visual History and Education and expanding the IWitness multimedia program in the Detroit area.

Ford Motor Company will sponsor the Institute’s IWitness Video Challenge for the next two years. The annual challenge invites North American students, inspired by the voices in IWitness, to use their innovation and creativity to bring positive value to their communities. Students then build a video based on testimony that tells the story of how they contributed to making their communities a better place.

IWitness is an educational website providing access to more than 1,500 full life histories, testimonies of survivors and witnesses of genocides, including the Holocaust, from the Institute’s Visual History Archive. IWitness learning activities promote digital literacy and develop students’ 21st century skills, including teaching the basics of research, archival curation and ethical editing.

“The work of USC Shoah Foundation is incredibly inspiring, as it is making a huge difference in so many people’s lives,” said Bill Ford, Ford Motor Company executive chairman. “We are excited to partner with USC Shoah Foundation to engage young minds, bring history to life and encourage today’s youth to build a better future.”