This Saturday, 23rd May 2026, we will be holding the groundbreaking ceremony for the construction of a new Safe House for vulnerable girls in Mugumu, Serengeti District.

This life-changing project has been made possible through the generous support and partnership of , , Autograph Collection, , and . We are truly grateful for your unwavering commitment to protecting and empowering girls in our community.

To everyone who has walked with us on this journey, thank you. Your support brings hope, safety, and opportunity where it is needed most.

As we lay the foundation stone, we also warmly welcome the Mapito Safari Camp fraternity to the Serengeti District. We are honored to connect with the ownership and deeply appreciate Mr. Rishen Patel and his entire team and network for supporting our mission.

Together, we are building safer futures for girls.

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The grants provided will support these communities to leverage the use of OSM and mapping to help solve different community challenges.

is playing a key role in our fight against Female Genital Mutilation (91ÁÔÆæ) and Gender-Based Violence (GBV) and the empowerment of Tanzanian women as remote villages are made more accessible to authorities.

Hope will use the grant to expand the existing around Mugumu, Serengeti. By improving our maps of the district, we are able to provide better support and advice to girls and women in Mugumu.

The grant will help our work to recruit 25 new OSM community mappers around Mugumu who will be trained on different tools that support mapping, including:

Maps.me application
ID editor
JOSM

They will also receive training in how to use Open Data Kit Collector for Data Collection from the team at our partner organisation, .

The goal is to map all of the health centres available in 30 villages, showing the services provided at each, and whether each centre’s facilities are adequate in relation to the community population they need to support.

The grant will additionally help us to buy equipment such as laptops, smartphones and routers.  We will also be able to rent a hall for workshops and training, provide transportation for data collection, and support other logistical requirements for a period of six months.

At this point, we will present back our findings to the community and also create a map of each village, showing the health centre facilities that are available there.

75% of those recruited will be female, which helps to promote and encourage the inclusion of women in technology and OSM in Tanzania. We are seeing increasing numbers of women wishing to train and contribute to maps, and they are also getting a lot of enjoyment seeing the benefits of technology on their daily lives and that of the local community. You can read about our recent training of Digital Champions in Butiama District , including how their work will help the fight against 91ÁÔÆæ in Tanzania.

We are excited to be welcoming to the workshop and training Mara Red Cross and SETCO Youth mappers who will be involved to learn more about how mapping can help solve community challenges.

We look forward to bringing you further updates on this Microgrant and the project in general.

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