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Tenedba refugee camp in Sudan
Andries Heyns, MSF GIS coordinator
Andries Heyns
GIS specialist
Sudan: Putting refugees on the map
When it comes to reaching vulnerable people in a crisis, our teams rely on accurate, up-to-date maps. However these can be hard to come by. Mapping specialist Andries Heyns has recently returned from Sudan, where a refugee crisis has been evolving rapidly...
06 Sep 2021 / 9 minute read
Raphael Brechard and Jorieke Vyncke - MSF
Raphael Brechard and Jorieke Vyncke
Innovation: Painting in the details with MapSwipe
Mapping specialists Raphael and Jorieke blog about a mobile mapping app that's helping improve how MSF responds to crises
30 May 2019 / 8 minute read
Nance Cunningham
Health Promoter
Health promotion in Pakistan: Patchwork
How can you plan to serve a community if you don't know how many people live there? Nance is in Pakistan, where she's working for Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) as a health promoter. Today, she explains why Google Maps, sticky tape, and a lot of patience has been crucial to the team's work...
01 May 2018 / 5 minute read
Pete Masters
Mapswipe: With every swipe and tap, you help put families on the map!
In the first post in our new Innovation blog, Pete writes about MapSwipe, a new project which lets ordinary people contribute to humanitarian work around the world, using just their smart phones. 
27 Jul 2016 / 3 minute read

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