The document outlines a campaign led by Rhobi Samwelly to combat female genital mutilation (FGM) in Tanzania by mapping safe houses and resources for girls. It highlights the efforts of over 1600 local activists, with a significant portion being female, and the collaboration of global organizations to organize mapathons to raise awareness and support mapping initiatives. The campaign aims to connect girls in need with safe houses during the critical cutting season, ultimately fostering community support against FGM.

1. Fighting
Female Genital Mutilation
with
Maps

3. Local FGM survivor and Hope
Director Rhobi Samwelly
Hope for Girls and Women supports:
• Local Activists
• Outreach
work
• Safe Houses

4. Girls are typically rounded up
during the
‘Cutting Season’
when they are on school
holidays
BUT
Change is coming..
Many girls refuse to be cut

5. But girls cannot find the safehouses:
And safehouse staff and the police
cannot find them:

6. This is rural Tanzania:
This is Dar es Salaam:

7. Activists
in rural Tanzania
need
MAPS!

8. We are making them!

11. data from http://opendata.go.tz/

12. Over 600 online
volunteers manually
added schools and
clinics

13. MAPPING ON MAPS.ME

14. We have trained over 1600 local activists to map their
communities in Tanzania, around 40% female

17. We were invited to organise a
mapathon at UNFPA in New
York in September 2018.
It was attended by 60 people
from UNFPA, UNICEF,
HOTOSM, Youthmappers and
others

18. To coincide with this
we held a global
mapathon events in 60
countries.
Including at the
Ministry for Women in
Somalia, in Mali,
Guinea, Kenya, Niger,
Uganda and many
others.

20. Please join us and help map to help protect girls from FGM!
Janet Chapman
j.chapman@tanzdevtrust.org
@Crowd2Map

21. Now let’s start mapping..

22. https://www.facebook.com/ajplusenglish/vid
eos/873491619459013/?t=0
https://vimeo.com/190461158