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Today,I hosted a successful meeting to merge the effort of Unique Mappers Network which started in March 2018 as UniLagMapperTeam with Key to the City Gate -Youth Mappers University of Lagos officially affiliated to Youth Mappers as a chapter in 2019. This meeting was necessitated by the need to reactivate OSM activities among students by Olarenwaju ,who graduated from same University a year ago .Issues at state include: 1. Should he proceed his OSM volunteer work with existing platform created by Unique Mappers Network as UniLagMappersTeam thereby having 2 OSM student teams in thesame University? 2. Should he proceed with Key to the City Gate YouthMappers affilated to another department and ignore the UniLagMappersTeam already known in his department 3. Should a team be created wiith entirely a new branded name and get that affiliated to YouthMappers ? Having convened the meeting which lasted about 55minutes with the following in attendance: 1 Dr.Peter Ellias -the faculty Advisor of Key to City Gate YouthMappers 2. Hameed Olarenwaju —–Unique Mappers Volunteer/Mentor University of lagos 3. Mercy Akintola -The FIUTA Youthmappers President and Reginal Ambassador 4. Olawatoyin -the Student leader of Key to the City Gate YouthMappers Chapter. I made it clear that the essence of hosting the meeting was to find a way forward for active OSM community engagement at University of Lagos and that Olanrewaju has volunteered to mobilize ,grow and mentor newbies . Although ,we stared a team of student volunteers in March 2018 with a whatsaap group accommodating about 15-20 student volunteers ,engaging them in OSM training and Mapathon with Missing maps leaders board https://www.missingmaps.org/leaderboards/#/unilagmappersteam The fact that Key to the City Gate Youth Mappers got registered as Youth Mappers in 2019 should not creation a faction rather the effort of the two teams should be merged and reactivated for the benefit of the newbies to be mobilized .Dir.Elias Peter ,the Faculty Advisor of the Youth mappers Chapter noted that he was not aware of the existing UniLagMappersTeam before the affiliation of his team to Youth mappers . Conclusively, the current team leader of the Youth Mappers …Miss Oluwatoyin appeal for more training as most of the current members less than 10 students are yet to sign up to OSM . Olanrewaju with username Hmddgreat was encouraged to proceed with his work as a Volunteer mentor to the YouthMappers Chapter . I also noted that ,Peter Ellias as a faculty advisor should feel free to hold or amend the branded name for the OSM Team .Mery Akintola advised for more training for the team. Looking forward to a reactivated and vibrant Youth Mappers Chapter at University of Lagos. As Indigenous OSM Nigeria NGO @Unique Mappers Network, we are always available to support, grow and expand OSM Community in Nigeria and beyond and we look forward to building more teams in Nigerian Universities with affiliation to Youth Mappers .Thanks to Peter,Olanrewaju,Oluwatoyin and Mercy for being there to see we had a successfull meeting to impact locally on OSM community at University of Lagos. Cheers.

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