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<p>Hi all,</p>
<p>we have now completed our field mission in the Dunkirk refugee
camp but mapping activities will of course be continued! <br>
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<p>You can read more about our experiences and plans on our <a
href="https://mapfugees.wordpress.com/%20T">blog</a> Files and
resources are available for download. You can take a look at the
camp on <a href="http://osm.org/go/0ELCv4JI1-">OSM</a><br>
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<p>Huge thanks to all HOT and OSM supporters!<br>
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<p>Best Katja<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 21/03/16 22:46, Blake Girardot
wrote:<br>
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Hi all,
<br>
<br>
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].
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<br>
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.
<br>
<br>
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.
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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.
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<br>
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.
<br>
<br>
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.
<br>
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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.
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://chuffed.org/project/a-map-for-dunkirk">https://chuffed.org/project/a-map-for-dunkirk</a>
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Any support you can offer, including sharing this crowdfunding
effort on your social networks, would be very very appreciated.
<br>
<br>
Regards,
<br>
Blake
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[1] <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.librarieswithoutborders.org/">http://www.librarieswithoutborders.org/</a>
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[2] <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.facebook.com/junglemapping">https://www.facebook.com/junglemapping</a>
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