Dear Friends, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres marked the International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation with a speech calling for a global effort to end the practice. Studies suggest around 200 million women and girls have been subjected to FGM, a practice the UN's Sustainable Development Goal aims to abolish by 2030.
If you have not had a chance to read Janet Chapman's link she shared earlier today about Crowd2Map Tanzania's work and how humanitarian mapping helps Mugumu Safe House stop FGM, please take a moment and read it. I have included it below. Many of us have worked on these projects. When I get asked why I map, it is projects like Crowd2Map Tanzania and Mugumu Safe House that are the answer. That is why I map. To contribute in some small way to their work. Respectfully, Blake ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Janet Chapman <[email protected]> Date: Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at 3:57 AM Subject: [HOT] Online mapping tool gives FGM runaways in Tanzania a path to help To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> I thought people might be interested in this article in The Guardian today. Thank you to everyone who has helped. Janet Online mapping tool gives FGM runaways a path to help https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/feb/06/online-mapping-tool-gives-fgm-runaways-a-path-to-help -- ---------------------------------------------------- Blake Girardot Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team, TM3 Project Manager skype: jblakegirardot HOT Core Team Contact: [email protected] Live OSM Mapper-Support channel - https://hotosm-slack.herokuapp.com/ BE A PART OF HOT'S MICRO GRANTS: https://donate.hotosm.org/ _______________________________________________ HOT mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
