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Mappc Wiki a collaborative project designed to showcase Peace Corps Volunteers and Returned Peace Corps Volunteers Maps and Projects. Check Talk:Main_Page or Suggestions_page.
Mappc.org:About Mappc.org is designed as forum for research and education on sustainable mapping projects around the world, it will foster new strategies and ideas about development through the exchange of information based on the belief that visual interpretation of landscapes, cultural, and geographic can be a powerful agent for developing sustainable strategic goals for a range of issues encountered by small communities around the world.
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JULY 2008 Featured Page: Turkmenistan
Annie Peirce 2007-2009 [[1]]
MARCH 2008 Featured Page: Niger
Mallamawa Kaka
Leah Wohlsdorf, 2002-2004, Mayahi, Niger.
FEBRUARY 2008 Featured Page: Benin
Allada
Chris Starace, 1995-1997, Allada, Benin.
"The concentric circles represent the distance from my house that I could comfortably ride my bike to villages to teach cooperatives small business development. A Mtn. Bike was my only means of transportation and due to the heat, mud and rain, 6-10 miles was all I could do each way. The return trip was usually mid-day and was usually quite hot or very wet. This map was indispensable to me to help me find my way around. In the African bush there certainly are no street signs, and I was never good enough at the local language to ask for directions and understand anything more than a point of the finger." Right. "I lived across the path from [...] one extended family [...] Since there were 40 or so people who lived there, I found it hard to learn everyone's name, figure out how and to whom they were related, and in which house they lived. To help figure this out I drew a simple map of their housing compound and I labeled the parents of each house since one couple and their children lived in each house." -Chris Starace Hand Drawn Community Map
Chris's Documentary DVD http://www.geocities.com/fon_is_fun/DVD.htm Chris's 2004 photos http://www.friends-of-benin.org/Chris-s-photos-7.04.htm
JANUARY 2008 Featured Page: El Salvador
Nuevo Eden de San Juan
Chris Delcher, 1998-2000, Nuevo Eden de San Juan.
(Left) Funding for a latrine project: Red symbols show households with no latrines in the area around the central plaza. I made this map because it was an application for funding requirement of the Pan American Health Organization.
(Right) Our group had this map of El Salvador commissioned for a T-shirt. Created by one of the PCVs, it shows a machine gun transforming into a corn-stalk representing peace after the civil war. The San Salvador volcano is in the background.
DECEMBER 2007 Featured Page: Lesotho
Maineng & Ha Ramabanta
Jack Conviser, Pen and Ink Drawing, Maineng & Ha Ramabanta. " I am showing the 'plans' of all of the houses, which shows the 'section cuts' of all of the houses. This helps me to locate doors and windows, which, from a cultural and planning standpoint helps me to learn about the spaces of these areas, which in turn helped me to learn a great deal about whom I was working with, which in turn, did help project development. One of the ways I did this was by labeling all of these houses with the families and/or specific people who lived there. Another way was to note the various uses of spaces, and general villagescape circulation." -Conviser
NOVEMBER 2007 Featured Page: Armenia
Noyemberyian
Training GPS/GIS Winter'06 with community engineers, Noyemberian, Armenia. Will Dickinson, 2004-2006 Ijevan/Jermuk.
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