Some 3,000 Tanzanian girls have escaped female genital mutilation (FGM) in five years after using a volunteer-created mapping project, a British-Tanzanian charity has said.
The project has helped rescue teams find teenage girls who have run away from home to avoid being cut and take them to safe houses.
Volunteers and locals have cooperatively mapped vast parts of the East African country’s rural expanse, with more than 14,000 volunteers placing roads and buildings using satellite images, while locals provide their expertise of the landscape.
Crowd2Map, which was created in 2015 by Janet Chapman, has added almost five million buildings in Tanzania to previously empty areas on OpenStreetMap Read more article
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