Global MapAid
GMA's Vision:-
To promote peace through the launch of massive numbers of quality sustainable jobs, globally. These are low-risk jobs represented by small-scale family or self-employed businesses, providing essential services or products to local communities.
GMA's Mission:-
Our goal is to make and use maps to help persuade and inform key stakeholders about where and why and how the solutions underpinning sustainable job programmes are needed. These solutions include vocational education, microcredit and business mentoring and are mapped in the context of underlying unemployment poverty levels. These solutions have been carefully researched under the umbrella of a post graduate degree at Henley Business School of Reading University, United Kingdom.
We aim to set up many locally based teams, across the world, to create poverty solution maps "to give eyes" to key stakeholders - primarily, members of parliaments, governments, educators, donors and NGOs and the voting public...
GMA right down to earth Statement:-
Many of us look at the TV weather report, to understand where it will be sunny or rainy for the precious week end. We go on holiday and spend our hard earned cash - and grab a tourist map for the best hotel, beach or even hospital. Therefore, why not maps to best know where and how to help to create jobs !
In sum, MapGap.org is special Global MapAid fundraising project:-
Moved by the 2011 riots and over 700,000 unemployed UK youth by 2015, the UK Project maps vocational education versus unemployment poverty and needs to be embedded into it’s own website with a crowd source team to capture data, map and evangelise maps. The website will then be useful to inform MPs, Mrs Jones with her four unemployed children, The Prime Minister, educators and the UK voting public...
See UK Proof of Concept briefing
In Ethiopia just 7% of the land that could be irrigate is irrigated, meaning potential famine every 10 or 15 years when there is drought. Think Band Aid 1984. The limiting factor is lack of micro-credit across the entire country, affecting 75 million people's livelihoods. The Ethiopia Project maps micro-credit so the relevant financial institutions and humanitarian organisations can see the gaps and collaborate to fill them. The project needs to be embedded with it’s own on-the-ground-data-collection & mapping team.
See Ethiopia Proof of Concept briefing
Patron: Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Prize Winner
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