Month: November 2016

Anticipated for December, we have received word that the FGM season has started already in the Mara region of Tanzania. We are rushing to map two tasks that will help Mugumu Safe House workers to identify & reach villages at risk:

http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/1788

http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/2261

Please help & invite all your friends to do mapping!

All you need is a PC and a mouse. Here’s an excellent instructional video, and detailed PDF instructions on how to get started.

Remember – every bit of land mapped makes a difference. 

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Here’s what we know about the affected girls so far:

Crowd2Map had a great time presenting at Mozfest in London last weekend.  We had a session in the science fair on Friday night and signed up a lot of new people to help map the area of Serengeti where girls are most at risk of Female Genital Mutilation via mapping from satellite images here.  Then we delivered a workshop on Sunday to actually get people mapping (all the notes from the session can be found in the Etherpad here), complete with a live link to the Safe House in Mugumu, and presented our map at the show party on Sunday.

Coupled with doing 4 interviews, meeting hundreds of amazing people and even being chased by monks it was a brilliant weekend. BUT, on a serious note, we are desperately trying to get the map of Serengeti complete before the FGM cutting season starts in 3 weeks time. Please help us here.

Notes from our Mozfest session: https://public.etherpad-mozilla.org/p/mozfest-2016-towards-sustainable-development–crow

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