Participatory mapping for community health in Mayotte
Just over a year ago, CartONG carried out a participatory mapping project with Médecins du Monde France (MdM) in informal settlements in Mayotte. Having been involved for several years with NGOs fighting against inadequate housing (cf. projects in French Guiana and Burkina Faso), we wanted to revisit this project in the context of increasingly violent political evictions and the destruction of camps and shantytowns. This current situation echoes our questions about mapping the "informal". How can we safely produce geographic information in these neighborhoods, where it is sorely lacking?