Monday, March 03, 2008
RefugeeMap launched
STARs new interactive online resource for young people is starting to pick up speed. RefugeeMap – which was laucnhed earlier this spring – provides easily accessible information about refugees and volunteering for young people, but best of all, it is built by volunteers, for volunteers.
Earlier this year, STAR secured funding from the Youth Action Network to create Refugee Map; an interactive wiki – linked to the STAR website – which will provide easily accessible information on refugee issues by and to students and young people. Built by a group of four volunteers, RefugeeMap is an interactive and expandable resource for the STAR Network and any other young people interested in refugee issues and volunteering. Built by volunteers for volunteers we are hoping that it will call on their experiences to become a comprehensive resource on refugees. RefugeeMap has the potential to be a trail blazer in the use of online resources for young people.
Information about refugees and volunteering with refugees is often scattered around the web and not very accessible. RefugeeMap seeks to gather this information in one place in an easily accessible form. By allowing people to contribute and take part in building the site it is hoped that the site will be genuinely volunteer led, supplying information that volunteers think is useful. The group of volunteers who built it are hoping that it will become an ‘an all singing, all dancing, one stop shop of information for anyone intersted in refugee issues and volunteering with refugees!’.
To contribute, just visit the site and get started!
Posted by Russell Brooks on 03/03/2008 at 01:34 PM
in STAR News
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