Congratulations on this important initiative. Heather
Heather Leson [email protected] Twitter: HeatherLeson Blog: textontechs.com On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 12:46 AM, Blake Girardot <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > A few members of the HOT community (myself included) are going to spend 2 > weeks volunteering in the refugee camp in Dunkirk France (population > ~3000), generating a detailed, multilingual map of the camp in > collaboration with some of the refugees currently in the camp and the > Libraries without Borders NGO[1]. > > The resulting map data will be used by residents, humanitarian > organizations and civil authorities to help improve the daily lives of the > residents and the delivery of services and support to the camp. > > The other major focus of the project is to teach OSM mapping to refugees. > There might be no group of people who can benefit more from a collaborative > map project than refugees far from their homes trying to find their way in > unfamiliar and often hostile places. In addition, refugees have a great > deal of unique and vital knowledge and skills to contribute to OSM and > humanitarian mapping efforts that HOT engages in every day. > > We expect this project to not only support refugees in the camp, but > refugees in transit throughout Europe, as well as internally displaced > persons in their native countries. > > One of the major humanitarian organizations asked us to map the Calais, > France camp. However, the majority of that camp was bulldozed before we > could organize the project and so we are moving the project to the Dunkirk > camp. > > As I mentioned, this project is being done in collaboration with Libraries > without Borders who are implementing one their incredible and empowering > "Ideas Box" in the Dunkirk camp at the same time and that we will make use > of during our training. > > Like Katja's last project with refugees and maps in Calais France[2], we > will be self-funding this and have started a crowdfunding campaign to cover > our travel, lodging and some equipment to leave behind in the camp. > > https://chuffed.org/project/a-map-for-dunkirk > > Any support you can offer, including sharing this crowdfunding effort on > your social networks, would be very very appreciated. > > Regards, > Blake > > [1] http://www.librarieswithoutborders.org/ > [2] https://www.facebook.com/junglemapping > > _______________________________________________ > HOT mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot >
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