[HOT] Project to map with refugees in the Dunkirk, France refugee camp

[Katja Ulbert]

Hi all,

we have now completed our field mission in the Dunkirk refugee camp but 
mapping activities will of course be continued!

You can read more about our experiences and plans on our blog 
<https://mapfugees.wordpress.com/%20T> Files and resources are available 
for download. You can take a look at the camp on OSM 
<http://osm.org/go/0ELCv4JI1->

Huge thanks to all HOT and OSM supporters!

Best Katja

On 21/03/16 22:46, Blake Girardot wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> 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].
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> https://chuffed.org/project/a-map-for-dunkirk
>
> Any support you can offer, including sharing this crowdfunding effort 
> on your social networks, would be very very appreciated.
>
> Regards,
> Blake
>
> [1] http://www.librarieswithoutborders.org/
> [2] https://www.facebook.com/junglemapping
>
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