OMAGH Support and Self Help Group (OSSHG) will unveil their Digital Archive on Wednesday 4th April 2007. Paul Clarke from UTV and Derek Henderson from the Press Association will be among many of the guests attending the launch.

The site is based on the archive collection housed in Omagh Support and Self Help Group offices. In November 2004 members of OSSHG with the help of Volunteers, students and financial support from Omagh Local Strategy Partnership embarked upon the task of creating an accessible on-line archive.

Online visitors can access over 5000 newspaper articles, video and audio recordings relating to information on the events leading up to and following the Omagh bombing and other global terrorist atrocities.

It is the hope of OSSHG that the archive will be utilised as an educational tool which will support understanding and learning in order to support continued Peace and Reconciliation. Information about the Omagh Bomb and other global atrocities will be accessible to victims and families, researchers and academics, locally and world wide.

Money received from the Awards for All Lottery Fund has enabled OSSHG to officially launch the Digital Archive in Omagh College Lecture Theatre, this project has involved the wide community and anyone interested is more than welcome to attend.

The idea for the project grew out of the Group members experience of the Omagh Bomb, after which they had collected a great many newspapers containing coverage of the atrocity, and wished, not only to organise and preserve these resources, but to extend the collection to cover other international atrocities and to make them available to other victims and their families, students, researchers, historians and the general public.

The Archive Project not only focused on collecting materials but also on developing skills of members and volunteers to increase their confidence and enhance employability. The site can be accessed on www.omaghbomb.co.uk