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This request for micro-funding to Africa Environment Wikifocus has just been submitted by Alice.Mukesh on 16-02-2023 and has been selected for support.


Proposed project

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Description

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Rwanda going green mindsets and lifestyle awareness is a project which want to take a challenge of spreading the word about protecting environment which will be achieved through 3 educating sessions about environment and climate change and after that attendees will create awareness by learning how to create new or edit existing articles on rw.wikipedia.org and en.wikipedia.org or even translate existing ones in Kinyarwanda for new editors who will be in the room. All attendees, both new and existing ones will edit climate change and environment articles. Rwanda going green mindsets and lifestyle awareness intend to make one of the three session particularly on Women and they role in protecting the environment as they are highly affected by the climate change effects.

Context

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Please specify the context of your request.

Rwanda going green mindsets and lifestyle awareness project is aimed to spread word about climate change which will help Rwandan community to change and have good mindsets about being environment friendly. in this regard they will be educating sessions both theoretical and practical which will help Rwandans to know and to calculate their ecological footprints and how they can live a life which doesn't harm environment. this will be done through virtual, face to face and field educating sessions moreover all of this knowledge gained will be shared with Rwandan community through Wikipedia Rwanda new articles about Environment, climate change and related topics and also by uploading pictures which encouraging people to live in harmony with other surroundings and put going green mindsets on the other level.

This project will encourage women and girls to be apart of it. as the 27 attendees, 19 of them will be women. Women are high affected by the climate change and being involved in activities like ones we want to do will give them courage to fight it and be key actors in climate change topic knowledge sharing within our community which is less informed on this subject.

Team

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Please specify who is submitting the request, and what their experience is in running activities The team which is submitting the request has three main C0-leaders; First one is Alice Mukeshimana, who aspires to be a great environmentalist advocate; she has contributed to the creation of articles about biodiversity in Rwanda on rw.wikipedia.org, won a prize in the contest of human right on environment, the Second one is Emmanuel Ndikumana, who is a Social Innovator Coach and always want the entrepreneurs(Innovators) to take into account Mother nature(earth). The Third one is Ange Dusabe, who is a social activist and a humanitarian fellow with more than two years working in an emergency situation supporting vulnerable communities in Rwanda specifically refugee camps, the experience our team has about different sectors of life reflects the diversity and amazing outcomes will result into Rwanda Going green mindsets and lifestyle Awareness activities once our request is considered and given a chance to execute the planned activities.

  • Names: Alice Mukeshimana, Username: Alice.Mukesh
  • Names: Emmanuel Ndikumana, Username: Endikuemmy
  • Names: Ange Dusabe , Username: Ange Dusabe
  • This request is from three(3) Wikimedia Community User Group Rwanda members but as Individuals
  • the funds will be transferred to one of the three of our bank accounts.

Outcomes

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Expected benefits related to funding are:

  • Informed Community
  • Reduce humans harmful doings on environment through learning to calculate oneself contribution to destroying the planet
  • Green Rwanda, Green Africa
  • Healthy life
  • Sustainable development

Budget

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Object Unit price (USD) Quantity Total (USD)
Internet 3 27 75
Transport and refreshments 15 27 405
Venue 75 1 75
Honoreum 20 9 180
T shirts 4 27 108
certificates for partners 6 3 18
Attendees certificates 5 27 135
Total 996

Any changes made to the budget after the application is submitted will void the application. You will then need to submit an updated application

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Final Report

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Final Report
This is the final report on micro-funded project for Africa Environment Wikifocus.

Guidelines

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  • Format of the report : the report must be provided as a wiki page on meta
  • Where to submit your report : linked to your request for micro-funding. A link has been added to your request for micro-funding. Please provide your report on that wiki page
  • Deadline to submit the report : 15th May 2023
  • Language : English or French

Summary

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Activities Record

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  • What did you do? We have organized an info session in the beginning of the project followed by two informative sessions that took participants into deep understanding of the project goal and helping new editors to learn and understand why climate change, why it’s urgency!
  • Who organized it all? Who was on your team (who did what?)? Alice Mukeshimana, Gatete Pacifique, Ange Dusabe, Jacques and Emmy
  • Did any organisations or associations or groups partner with you to make it happen? If so, who are they? None/ N/A
  • When did you hold events, where and how? How did you let people know about it? Kigali, down town restaurant (Blue room, cafe and restaurant)
  • Who attended your event/s? What did they do at the event? What did they think of the event you held?
  1. On 21st March 2023, we launched officially Rwanda Going Green Mindsets and Lifestyle Awareness and we did the first session which was to educate people about Climate change virtually, the purpose of the projects and how to leverage Wikimedia's platform to spread the word about climate change consequences. Ange Dusabe was the organizer of the event and she explained about the project, Pacifique Gatete was the Moderator, Jack was the trainer of how to create account and create/edit or translate articles on Wikimedia platform. before the event we made a poster to let people know and we also used different social media platform like twitter, WhatsApp. the event hard a target to reach at 27 people but 19 attended.
  2. On 4th April 2023, we had another online informative session, the team organized it as it was being asked for by Many people who wanted to know more about the project, climate change and how to avoid making mistakes while editing on Wiki. Pacifique was the moderator, Jack the Trainer and Alice led an open conversation about climate change and how we can live in a way which don't harm environment. In the session, attendees asked themselves the number of the planet they would need to afford them comparing to the actions they do which harm the environment. we used social media to create awareness of the session, the attendees were most of the project participants and they tried to be active and share what they know about the climate change. the attendees appreciated the session saying that they learned a lot of things and asked for bring in experts next time for more interesting information.
  3. On 06 May 2023, we had the last session which was face to face Kigali-Down Town at Blue Room Cafe&Restaurant, the session was about learning climate change consequences especially on women, understanding the challenges faced while contributing to wiki closing project activities like offering certificates and give appreciation to those who participated in the project . the team organized this to let participants understand more the climate change consequences and to make a Conclusion of the Project

Documentation of activities

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  • The gallery that includes all photo coverage can be accessed through this link.
  • Quotes reflecting participants experience can be found below:

This contest enriched my knowledge on environment conservation as I was conducting various researches to support my article creation... And as well I was blessed to be honored as an overall contributor in this campaign so this encouraged me to be an active contributor to various Wikimedia projects. And continue to spread the open free knowledge because the work we are doing by volunteering is being recognized.

Giselle TUYISHIME.

As a lead organizer of this campaign, I was grateful to have ladies enjoying to contribute on this campaign. And also regarding to capacity building sessions and knowledge acquired by participants on how to contribute quality information on Wikimedia projects especially Wikipedia, we believe that our participants will continue to contribute with quality contents and live a green life.

Alice MUKESHIMANA.

Even though I didn't get the chance to be recognized in top contributors, I am happy that the campaign had left me with adequate knowledge from different capacity building sessions we had like climate change, mitigation, and adaptation. and that will help me to foster my contributions towards the open free knowledge.

Pseudonym Contributor.
  • Links to social media is:
  1. Post announcing the introduction of campaign in community.
  2. Post for announcing the second capacity building session to participants, and welcoming new participants in the contest.
  3. Post by Wiki Loves Africa for announcing the existence of the campaign.
  4. Post for announcing 4 days to the conclusion of the contest.
  5. Post for announcing the overall contributor of this campaign.

Goals and Outcomes

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Did you meet your goals? Are you happy with how the project went?

The Overall Goal of the project was to write as many as possible articles and engage more writers both new and experienced one, yes we wrote many articles as intended and more new comers have joined the movement and get to understand about the climate change! The sessions we did was eye opening to the participants through we needed to engage more than we were managed to reach.

Please use the table below to report on the outcomes achieved, starting with the original targets you shared in your proposal for the microgrant.

Final project metrics
Proposed metrics Anticipated outcome Achieved outcome Explanations
more than 1000 edits on our Dashboard Informed Community 2038 These were the total of articles created under the project timeline
changed mindsets testimonies Reduced harmful human doings on the environment above 20 we received more than 20 oral feedbacks about how some of participants didn't know how what they do affects environment and that they decided to change
Healthy life and sustainable development

Learnings

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We learned that the climate change is a subject which many don't care about but a heavy one which requires our attention and reaction. We are proud of the project results in spite of different challenges and shortcomings we managed to do more than two thousands edits and we had interesting session which we think left Rwandan Community knowledge or basic Information on Climate change. The experience we had as a team was really amazing we learned while doing but mostly we learn to work and adoption skills when there is unseen/unforecasted changes also learned to listen to each and everyone to come up with tangible results. And if we had to it again, we would put much efforts in awareness avoid short notice sessions communication.

Finances

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How did the initial proposed budget compare to the final costs of the project? Were there any unexpected costs or changes to your initial budget.

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Use the table below to display your initial request, include the approved line items on your proposal and the proposed cost of these. Insert the real cost of each expected line. Add extra lines for additional expenses that were not anticipated in the proposed budget. If your budget is in local currency, please use the exchange rate on the date (or an average of the dates) that your money was transferred to your account. Historic mid-rates can be found here.

Please reuse your initial request, provide initial budget for each line, indicate actual expense for each line, and finally justify significant differences.

Final Cost of Project
Proposed line item Initially budgeted Actual spend Explanations (of differences)
Internet 75 75 no changes here
Transport and Refreshment 405 405 no changes here
Venue 75 75 there was no changes here
Honorarium 180 301 during the project Implementation, the team found it needed to add other fees for this item as the team grew
T shirts 108 0 No T shirts were made we found it not necessary and contributing to high energy using(Gas emissions)
Certificates for partners 18 0 there were no partners due to limited time we had we didn't manage to engage partners as it was planned
Certificates for Participants 135 100 Participants number was under the one we planned for so we gave out few certificates and appreciations
Photography(Pictures) 18 this item didn't have a budget in the starts but we found later that it was important
Bank charges 6 Bank significant charged we didn't plan for in the beginning
Total 996 980

Total grant money agreed (in USD): USD 1000

Total grant money received (in USD or local currency): USD 980

Exchange rate on day/s of receipt of funds: Exchange rate for the first installment was USD 1= 1,090.87 RWF, on 06 April 2023 and the last installment Exchange rate was USD 1 = 1094.44 RWF

Total project spent (in USD or local currency): USD 980

Unspent funds
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There is no remaining Funds

Unspent amount (in USD): USD 0

Anything else

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Thanks for this Initiative of providing grants for Climate change/ Africa Environment related project it is a one of ways to change the word in a better way. I was honored to be a part of this significant Project. we would appreciate logistics part to be sorted out in the beginning so that the project goes smoothly and as planned otherwise Keep doing the Good Job you are doing!

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