WWC Open Street Map

USAID supports HOT and the Hope Center Mugumu Safe House as part of its WomenConnect Challenge, launched in March 2018, to support solutions that empower women and girls to access and use digital technologies. Since 2015, HOT’s Crowd2Map project in Tanzania has been adding schools, hospitals, roads, buildings and villages to OpenStreetMap with the help of over 7500 volunteers worldwide and 600 locally. These maps are used by community activists to locate and protect girls at risk of FGM, as well as providing local officials data needed to plan for the development of services. / Photo by Bobby Neptune for DAI