Ricardo Domínguez/Brett Stalbaum/Micha Cárdenas: Winners of the Transnational Communities Award - Transborder Immigrant Tool

Project: Transborder Immigrant Tool (Herramienta Transfronteriza para Inmigrantes)

Each year, thousands of people attempt to traverse the unforgiving desert terrain that makes up the United States-Mexico border. Hundreds of those migrants lose their lives to the elements due to the inability to discern where they are in relation to where they have been and which direction they need to go. The goal of the project is to help reduce the number of deaths along the border by developing a common cell phone device into a navigation tool that will help migrants locate life saving resources in the desert such as water caches and safety beacons.