[HOT] OSM Sierra Leone is fundraising!

[Pete Masters]

Hi Tommy, thanks for the email. Excited about the project, especially as I
have done some OSM mapping in Sierra Leone with MSF (mapping waterpoints in
Freetown)

For future reference, if people are writing aboiut their microgrants
project, reference the microgrants programme in the email and use the
official donately link - https://pages.donately.com/hotosm/campaigns/ -
just in case people think it might be a phishing email, which obviously
this is not!

Good luck with the campaign!!

Pete

On Thu, Nov 28, 2019 at 12:16 PM OSM Sierra Leone <osmsierraleone at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hello
>
> I'm Tommy Charles a coordinator at Openstreetmap- Sierra Leone which is a
> registered Non-Governmental Organization in Sierra Leone. We're are engaged
> in humanitarian mapping with the application of Openstreetmap and other
> open data collection and visualization techniques.
>
> Currently, we are working to revive and expand our mapping community but
> we lack all the prerequisites to do so. These prerequisites include, a
> permanent venue to hold mapathons, computers, mobile phones and Internet
> facilities.
>
> Our main goal is to have a community with a strong foundation and
> structures  to execute mapping, community awareness and exposure projects
> similar to Map Kibera, Open Cities and vulnerability assessments. This will
> be very essential in a country that experiences disease outbreaks,
> Landslides and flooding every year
>
> Against this backdrop we are seeking funds to procure computers, mobile
> phones and portable internet sources for mapping, data collection,
> workshops and other beneficial activities .
>
> With these we'll be able  to have a memorandum of understanding with the
> Geographic Information System- Laboratory at Fourah Bay College in order to
> use the Laboratory as a permanent location to hold mapathons, workshops and
> activities of our community.
>
> We are kindly pleading for your donations in order to achieve this goal.
> Please do so by checking out our donation page through the link below where
> you'll find our donation link.
>
>
> https://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FMTDsierraleone&sa=D&usd=2&usg=AFQjCNGw4IMZjNz6-q54KXhOts1100cuwA
>
>
> Our community will appreciate your kind efforts whether big or small to
> keep it alive and sustainable to continue its humanitarian course.
>
> Regards
> Tommy Charles
> Coordinator
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