[HOT] OSM Sierra Leone is fundraising!

[Alfred Bockarie]

Hi Tommy, 

I am happy for this initiative. I did  OpenStreetMapping of roads, rooftops, health centres, swamps and sectional boundaries of Bo City, Sierra Leone between 2012 and 2016. I also did some mapping of the road network in Kenema City. 

I hope you have a national mapping plan which I I’m thinking will be really useful for researchers, planners and the city councils. 

Best of luck with your fundraising 

Kind regards
Alfred 


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> On 28 Nov 2019, at 12:13, 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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