In our arrangement of letters from African columnists, Sierra Leonean-Gambian author Ade Daramy clarifies how he was instrumental in getting Gambians a location.
A year ago I did a piece for the BBC about how simple was to become mixed up in The Gambia where not many roads are named.
It started vivacious discussion here in the little West African country and I likewise got loads of messages via web-based networking media from individuals saying: "It's the equivalent in my nation."
Some saw it as humor - as I clarified how bank structures, for instance, had boxes large enough for you to draw where your home was, comparable to the closest tourist spots.
However, it has taken Covid-19 to give us that locations are not a restorative extra but rather a need.
How would you contact follow and screen suspected coronavirus-contaminated individuals, in the event that you don't have a legitimate location where you can discover them?
How would you get all the presumed cases to take to an isolate focus, when you go through hours being coordinated to a solitary house and there are many patients in different spots who likewise should be gotten?
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All things considered, envision my astonishment and pleasure when the non-benefit association Finding Gambia called the TV channel where I work to check whether we could cover a pilot plan to give individuals addresses.
My name and phone number were given as contacts, so, all things considered they stated: "Is it a similar Ade Daramy who composed that BBC article?"
I was very complimented to be informed that my piece had been utilized in a few gatherings to persuade possible accomplices - focal government and metropolitan committees - of the need for addresses.
The individuals who began Finding Gambia, Bakary Suso and Alieu Sowe, clarified that they were utilizing something many refer to as "in addition to codes" to do this.
It is Google innovation, useable both on the web and disconnected, that makes a short code for any area which can without much of a stretch direct individuals utilizing Google Maps.
The codes work simply like road addresses - and are comprised of a mix of two components:
First is a short code of somewhere in the range of six and seven letters and numbers
And afterward a region - a town or city.
Obviously, I was interested, as our group set off to "address" the issue.
We showed up at the principal house where a sign with its code imprinted on was fixed to the outside divider.
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