Hi all, We're down to the last 10 days in the HOT 2015 funding campaign at http://donate.hotosm.org
If you've been waiting to make that last-minute gift to HOT, now is a great time! And, if you file a tax return in the US, your contribution to HOT can be deducted if made by Dec. 31. While a donation of any amount is immensely helpful, there's another way you can contribute: Simply by sharing the amazing work you do with a friend or family member. Feel free to copy/paste from below (adapted from your tweets & posts!) ----- -----TWITTER----- Only 10 days left to fund critical maps that get aid to disaster survivors. Please help today donate.hotosm.org #mapthedifference How to spend 10 min volunteering with @hotosm & have a real impact on lives of disaster survivors https://youtu.be/8wdzGKmZu-k #mapthedifference I volunteer my skills by mapping disasters from home! Will you join me? https://youtu.be/8wdzGKmZu-k @hotosm #mapthedifference -----FACEBOOK and EMAIL----- Hi Friends! I do not talk about it very often, but during disasters I help create maps that get the right people and supplies to the right place at the right time. And I do it all from my computer. How? Believe it not or not many places around the world are not mapped. That means local communities can not plan for disasters, can not control local development and governments and other NGOs can not easily provide things like health and sanitation services. In addition, when disasters do strike, responding organizations are hampered by the lack of maps and map data. The organization I volunteer with is called @Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT). HOT lets anyone capable of using a web browser contribute to disaster relief by mapping a vulnerable area online in OpenStreetMap. HOT also works around the world to not only help local communities generate maps and map data, but to infuse mapping, cartography and geographic information systems skills into the local community in a sustainable way so they can keep adding to and maintaining their map data in the future. Check out the impact these maps are having in this video: https://youtu.be/8wdzGKmZu-k and the HOT donation campaign at http://donate.hotosm.org Please share! The more people who know about our work the more volunteers we get and the more we can accomplish. -----
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