By Janet CHAPMAN | Project Leader
This week we celebrated International Women's Day with an event outlining why mapping is particularly important for women in rural Tanzania. Janet outlined how maps are helping protect girls from Female Genital Mutilation, and how the Digital Champion programme set up with Hope for Girls and Women is contributing. You can see her slides here.
We next heard from Youthmapper Ambassador Laura Mugeha about mapping towards progress in the Sustainable Development Goals.
Finally Ezekiel Kassanga from Tumaini Open School for girls excluded from education by pregnancy explained how mapping helps their work. His slides are here.
We were delighted to be joined by many of our interns. We are hoping to repeat this programme helping to get young African women their first step on the GIS ladder once we have enough funds to support their data costs.
You can access the recording of the event here. We will be holding another on March 29th so please join us if you can. Link to register is here
Thank you again for your support!
Janet
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