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More than 400 volunteers have gathered to map remote areas of Yemen, Zimbabwe and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, in a 'mapatón' organized by Doctors Without Borders, Action Against Hunger and Geoinquietos.
Carlos Pineda, Professor of International Relations of the Murcia Tourism Faculty, has captained this day in the Region.
For the first time the Region of Murcia joins this initiative in which cities such as Barcelona, ​​Cordoba, Gijón, Girona, Madrid, Mieres, Pamplona, ​​Santander, Santiago de Compostela, Seville, Valencia and Zaragoza have participated.
Students and volunteers who went to the School of Tourism mapped approximately 2,800 entities between roads and houses, so it can be said that they directly helped some 2,500 families.
Murcia, together with the city of Santander, was in charge of mapping the Congolese Province of Ituri, which an MSF surgeon who works in the field was talking about.
A town with difficult access where MSF has a limited capacity of help due to this inconvenience that can be reduced with the cartography that has made students of the Faculty and volunteers who have joined during the afternoon of Thursday.
The information that can be collected in a well-mapped area is enormous and its applications are endless.
Attendees have seen how anyone can help a humanitarian crisis team from the living room of their home.
The work of cartography, explains Carlos Pineda, professor at the Faculty of Tourism "is increasingly simple thanks to technology, anyone with a GPS on a mobile phone can mark the layout of a road." Ideally, this information should be available before Getting to a site for the first time, but not always possible due to the lack of access to some areas due to the high insecurity.This is why it is very useful to work remotely in days like this with people who have voluntarily dedicated its time for everyone to put the most vulnerable on the map. "
Source: Universidad de Murcia
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