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Report accepted
This report for a Rapid Grant approved in FY 2021-22 has been reviewed and accepted by the Wikimedia Foundation.


Goals

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Did you meet your goals? Are you happy with how the project went?
We are pleased to have met our goals. We were able to engage existing Wikimedians and also recruit a few new ones. We gathered great images relevant to the campaign and this was a major highlight for us.

Outcome

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Please report on your original project targets. Please be sure to review and provide metrics required for Rapid Grants.


Target outcome Achieved outcome Explanation
25 participants We were able to engage 25 participants The 25 participants are broken down as 15 participants from our partnership with the Lamu Museum and 10 participants who reached out to actively participate.
900 photos uploaded to Wikimedia Commons 487 photos uploaded to Wikimedia Commons We were not able to get to our target goal of submissions,however, we were pleased to have gathered more submissions than the previous year.
7 venues visited 15 venues visited The participants really diversified their search for the images and were able to visit more venues than we had anticipated.


Learning

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Projects do not always go according to plan. Sharing what you learned can help you and others plan similar projects in the future. Help the movement learn from your experience by answering the following questions:

  • What worked well? We have a working partnership with the Lamu Museum in Kenya and it was another successful venture. The students are always very keen to participate and our link to the museum always does a great job with coordination activities. We were also able to get more submissions than 2021.

We were also able to reimburse all participants in time, which is a lesson we learnt from our previous year.

  • What did not work so well?

Our social media insights and interactions were not as significant as we hoped, however, we have grown our follower base especially on Twitter and hope that this will work in our favor for the next competition.

  • What would you do differently next time?

We strive to get more out of county representatives who can help coordinate activities in their respective counties. We have already partnered with Lamu as mentioned above, and plan to expand into other counties.

Finances

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Grant funds spent

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Please describe how much grant money you spent for approved expenses, and tell us what you spent it on.
5 camera rentals : 40,000 KES
Data for participants: 20,000 KES
Lamu museum expenditures: 30,000 KES
Stipend for participants (used to cater for transport, entrance fees, meals) : 110,000 KES
Prizes: 30,000 KES


Total : 230,000

Remaining funds

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Do you have any remaining grant funds?

Remaining funds have been used or will be used for other approved mission-aligned activities. This use has been requested in writing and approved by WMF.

970 KES has remained.
We plan to utilize this during Wiki Loves Earth 2022 in Kenya.


Anything else

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Anything else you want to share about your project?
WLA continues to be Kenya's best performing photo contest and we are excited for the 2023 edition.

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