Emergency mapping volunteers
MapAction's work depends on a group of skilled and dedicated volunteers.
Apart from a small admin support group, our volunteers are all 'deployable' team members who undertake emergency and planned missions, without fee. The main team is based in the UK, with small sections in the Caribbean region and in Germany. All have been carefully selected and trained for their specialist role.
Volunteers need to have strong skills using GIS software, achieved by working with these tools in their 'day jobs'. MapAction gives them all the additional knowledge and skills they need to function effectively in a humanitarian emergency.
We receive many enquiries each month from people who would like to become volunteers. When team vacancies arise, competition for places is tight.
Volunteer profile: Philip Moore
Like most MapAction volunteers, Philip is a skilled GIS professional. When not volunteering with MapAction, he has a full-time job deveoping GIS technologies.
Since joining MapAction in 2006 Philip has deployed on eight humanitarian missions, to Ghana, Pakistan (attached to UNJLC), Mexico, Myanmar, Haiti, Benin, Sumatra and most recently Egypt for the Libya Crisis. Like all our volunteers, he also participates in monthly weekend training sessions.
Philip commented: “MapAction has given me the privilege of pursuing my passion for map-making within a fantastic team, for truly worthwhile and most immediate causes.”