People over fifties who are actually a marginal population will have the  opportuntity  live with dignity.

We cannot change the world with this project but  we can make a better world. 

In the 1980s and 1990s, over 69,000 people were killed in a brutal conflict between the Peru government and Maoist rebels. Of those killed, there are still many unresolved disappearances – and the figures have been put at 8,558 by the Peruvian Truth Commission. The Peruvian Forensic Anthropology Team (EPAF) puts this figure as closer to 14,000 and to date has been able to collect information on 13,721 people who are still missing.

EPAF is seeking a way to develop an interactive map that would mesh the GIS capabilities of GoogleMaps with data on missing persons from their databases and spreadsheets with a feedback form where external audience would supply information to EPAF for verification and later inclusion on the map.

This map/data tool as described above would used as:-

1. GIS Investigative Tool: This would help in establishing any spatial relationships and trends in the people who went missing. Currently, EPAF has information on where people went missing from, place(s) where they are thought to have been taken to and where they were last seen. The use of maps and GIS as an investigative tool has been well established, and we have no doubt that this would be just as useful in this case.

2. National Record of the missing: Currently, there is no national record of those that went missing. While various records with data about the missing can be found – usually this is combined with other information (e.g Peru's Unified Registry of Victims has data on all victim typologies e.g. sexual assaults, torture). This this would be the beginnings of a central database of information for this purpose.

3. Outreach/ Educational Tool: This would also be used on behalf of and for families whose family members still remain unaccounted for. Ultimately, this would evolve to a focal point with information related to the disappeared (e.g. links to support facilities on the ground, news stories related to disappearances etc).

4. Preventative Tool: It is hoped that the success of this tool encourages its use in countries with similar disappearances (e.g. the Philippines). This tool could be used to track enforced disappearances, analyze trends as they occur, solicit information from the public, and rally a public behind an unfolding situation.