The young people who mapped the town of St-Marc

When a disaster strikes a region, humanitarian organizations and state institutions sometimes have difficulties to intervene in the most affected areas. In some cases, a map would ease the task. With the cholera epidemic, international agencies experienced the painful task of intervening in St-Marc. Now the city has been mapped by thirty young people from the town.

Le Nouvelliste
27 févr. 2014 — Lecture : 3 min.
Young university students and professionals mostly in their twenties are "mapers" as they like to say in English. These young cartographers formed the Community Open Street Mapping of Haiti, Saint-Marc (COSMHA, STM in French). After receiving cartography training from an international organization from January to April 2012, they established this association on April 30, 2012. It was nice to put the theories we learned into practice. 31 young people, with the support of the organization who trained them, had quite a challenge ahead of them: map

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