Introduction Leadership often begins with a question: How can we use what we know to serve the communities around us, and how can we change the community with what we have? When I assumed office as President of the KNUST YouthMappers Chapter (2024–2025), I carried a strong passion for community engagement, environmental sanitation, and climate action. As a geospatial community enthusiast, I believed our work and activities should go beyond mapping and translate into visible i

On September 20, 2025, our team, KabU YouthMappers from Kabale University, joined hundreds of youths across Africa and the Caribbean for the MAP&CLEAN Challenge, a collaborative initiative with Yoma, UNICEF, Generation Unlimited, and the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT). Where We Made a Difference We focused our efforts around Kabale Town, working in the areas captured in our shared digital map: https://umap.hotosm.org/en/map/chatmap_960. The map pinpoints exactly where