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benosea

Mapper since:
April 16, 2016

I born in October 1986 at a small village called Zeze in South - West Kasulu Tanzania, the village in which I live to date. I struggled hard through extremely poverty to acquire the only Bachelor Degree in Environmental Planning and Management that achieved in November 2013 from the Institute of Rural Development Planning - Dodoma Tanzania. Many villages in Tanzania have not been registered online map and making difficult to access them in the cases of humanitarian services in emergencies, development planning and environmental management. Absence of villages on the map, have been making hardship to trace the level of poverty to those villages and plan for development. In 2014 I founded Mboni ya Vijana Group (MVG), the youth run grass-root organization lifting Zeze community from extremely poverty. Since I founded this organization and meet with Janet Chapman who told me about OpenStreetMap and Maps.Me (the app for Android devices), I have been putting places from Zeze and other villages in Kasulu district on the Map using these software (OpenStreetMap (OSM) and Maps.Me). By the mid of 2017, I have so far added more than 460 points on the Map and 116 edits on OSM, trained more than 145 community mappers and more than 800 students from two Youth Mappers Chapters in the Institute of Rural Development planning of Dodoma and Mwanza.

I understand that map is one among the Development tools which makes me pledge to work with OSM, Crowd2Map Tanzania and other mappers to make sure Tanzania is almost on the map to facilitate socio-economic planning and Development. I train