Crowdsourced Mapping to Prevent FGM in Tanzania

Thanks to your generous support we are continuing to train local mappers to support progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals

Read on to discover how we are supporting the first 3 goals:

Goal 1 – No Poverty End poverty in all its forms everywhere

What Crowd2Map is doing:

We are mapping basic services including education, water points, sanitation, and electricity

We work with rural communities to map underrepresented villages. See our Missing Villages Project

We are mapping  commercial activity to understand economic needs and opportunities

Goal 2 – Zero Hunger End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture

What Crowd2Map is doing:

We map access to food, such as school farms, markets, and shops in order to identify food deserts

We map  farms to help NGOs such as Mboni ya Vijana and PlantVillage reach farmers for assistance and training opportunities 

Goal 3 – Good Health and Wellbeing Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages

What Crowd2Map is doing:

We map areas where girls are at risk of Female Genital Mutilation and train Digital Champions to help protect them. Activists estimate that having better maps has helped protect over 3000 girls from being cut.  We were invited to talk about this work at the UN General Assembly in 2018.

We map barriers to healthcare services, such as the distance people must travel for healthcare and the cost of transportation. – See our healthcare mapping project.

Thank you again for your support

Links:

• https://crowd2map.org/mapping-and-the-sdgs/