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

[Heather Leson]

Congratulations on this important initiative.

Heather

Heather Leson
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On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 12:46 AM, Blake Girardot <bgirardot at gmail.com>
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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