Hello, dag, bonjour Belgian mappers, It would be great to get your support for a nice little humanitarain-mapping project in our backyard.
The next two weeks four HOT-OSM volunteers (myself included) will start with "Jungle Maps" in the refugee camp in Duinkerke in the north of France. In collaboration with the refugees, we'll try to map out the whole camp. We'll give them training in fieldmapping and openstreetmap-mapping so that after two weeks we will have printed maps for the whole camp community that can be updated by the trained residents themselves. And yes for this we need some more help! We set up a crowdfunding campain to raise some money to be able to really go forward with the project. So it would be lovely if you could miss a few euro's so we can achieve our goal. You can donate here: https://chuffed.org/project/a-map-for-dunkirk What we will use the money for is mainly lodging and transport for the volunteer-trainers, equipement and internet connection and also for the production of printed maps. If you don't want to donate money we also are very happy to get offline donations. I mean, if people have equipement (of course only functional!) we could use and leave in the camp after the training we would be very happy with your gifts! What we are looking for: two or three laptops, a wifi router, two or three computer mouses, a printer (however I tought Jo was already eager to donate one!?), a gps, a smartphone and an arabic keyboard (somebodey? We want to make a multilangual map of the camp...). During the training phase we will be able to use the materials of Libraries without borders, but we are not yet sure they will stay on site after the training. Also it would be very very much appreciated if you could share our crowdfunding campaign in your networks! And if you are interested to do even more, please get in touch with us. This is a pilot phase, so maybe there is an opportunity to extend the project and than we are probably looking for volunteers... So don't hesitate to get in touch! Vele groetjes, Jorieke
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