Hi, While coordinating the Ebola Response with humanitarian organizations in Mbandala, *OSM-DRC* faces other challenges and calls for support from the OSM community.
You can help map vulnerable neighborhoods in Kinshasa that are prone to cholera outbreaks and floods. The area is a transit point for people coming from Ebola areas (near the airport). See https ://tasks.hotosm.org/project/4685 As part of a partnership with Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR), https://www.gfdrr.org/en/who-we-are-beta- , the OSFAC https://osfac.net/ (Observatory satellite forests of Central Africa ...) and Potentiel3.0 (http: //www.potentiel3-0. org / index.php / en / <http://www.potentiel3-0.org/ index.php/en/>) and the OSM-DRC community http://openstreetmap.cd/fr/ are mobilizing themselves within the Open Cities Africa project. The idea is to mobilize strongly local communities. These can play a vital role given their knowledge of the territory. We will collect, with them and for them, information on the characteristics of different neighborhoods and their environmental vulnerabilities. *They will be trained in OSM* editing techniques and tools, and in collecting relevant field data. *The OSM-RDC team will be at your side during this mapping*, in the field, duing the digitization and validation. And we look forward to seeing you on this project. *With pleasure and good mapping !!!*
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