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![December 14, 2018: Mugumu, Tanzania: Rhobi Samwelly, [left] the director of the Hope Center Mugumu Safe House, trains two women from the northern Serengeti District of Tanzania on how to add data to the free, crowdsourced OpenStreetMap as part of a USAID grant to NGO Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT). These entries, such as names of roads, schools, churches, and other points of interest, are helping create the first ever digital map of this part of Tanzania that can be used by citizens for an array of purposes. One crucial way the maps are being used are to help locate girls at risk of female genital mutilation, or FGM, which, though illegal, is still traditionally practiced in communities throughout the Serengeti. 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](https://www.digitaldevelopment.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/52275105578_7b621e74e5_o-5.jpg){kind=small}
