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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?

The project was a success and proved its impact with the young ladies in various senior high schools in Accra. We were able to hold one (1) training, two (2) Edit-a-thons which brought together a total of (45) new editors and participants in general.

Outcome

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Target outcome Achieved outcome Explanation
Organise 4 events thus (training, 2 edit -a-thon & a contest)
  • One Training
  • Two edit-a thons
  • A week long edit contest
 We had an online training for the introductory session via google meet. Two in-person edit-a-thon and virtual check-ins with different meeting times organised in order to meet participants who had different backgrounds and per their availability.

A week-long writing contest was organised to encourage the creation and improvement of articles on Wikidata and Wikicommons respectively

Recruit 25 participants Recruited 45 Our target was exceeded, it was great to have many young girls from about 10 different senior high schools participating in this project despite the short period assigned.
15 new editors 40 new editors There were about 40 new editors with 30 actively participating in the contest. Four other participants were experienced wikipedians plus 1 head teacher who had some background in editing.
100 WikiData items created or improved 778 items on women in sports, education media and the like were improved However, 9 new images were added on WikimediaCommons


Link to the media campaign and dashboard here:

1.https://www.facebook.com/groups/YOGhana/permalink/1612480402454311/

2.https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/Wiki_Hour_Initiative/DigitalSkillsforYouth_1.0_Edit-a-thon_(2022)/students/overview

Learning

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  • What worked well?

Our collaborations with the groups thus; Women Trust Ghana,Global Platform Ghana and Youth Opportunities Ghana were astonishing. We are very excited to share that one head teacher had already edited Wikipedia previously so it was easy to have his assistance in training the young girls during the workshop. Also, all other teachers joined throughout the programs start till completion.

Also, we had very enthusiastic young female students between the ages of 13-17 years who showed interest in having more such events to build their research skills before going to the University. Some even joined the training right after their normal classes were over. It was evident that they later got interested and eager to learn more about the other Wikimedia Sister project.

  • What did not work so well?

Since a quarter of participants were virtual, some did not sign up to the dashboard hence their edits were not recorded. Also, we had a challenge with IP addresses during the event which caused a lot of difficulties during the first two meetings.


  • What would you do differently next time?

To expand the scope of the project to other deprived areas or regions.

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.

  • Communication & design - Engagement time, calls, promotional materials, boosting and flyer (USD220)
  • Feeding cost - Provision of snacks and food for all the training and edit-a-thon at $200 per each event. (USD400)
  • Internet for data on router for the all sessions -(USD100)
  • Data scholarship - This was $10 each for 10 participants who joined virtually and did not have the chance to attend the training and edit a thon in person. An amount of $50 gave room for other participants outside Accra which increased participation and paid for all transfer charges. Thus, $10*10= $100 + $50 = $150(USD150)
  • Jury - 3 member Jury received gift and internet for the voluntary support (USD300)
  • Administrative expense - Internet and gift support support for the team (USD250)
  • Awards - This was for certificates, gifts and special (school gadgets) prizes for top (3) outstanding winners after the edit-a-thon and contest.(USD300)
  • Transportation - This supported 4 team members and 2 teachers for their Taxi/Uber for all the physical training to and from the venue at $30 per person at each event. (USD360)
  • Rental of projector - Cost for projector rental for the two months period of training. (USD100)
  • Space rental and food - This provided a meeting space for information synthesis that is the meeting of the team to synthesise information for the report. The cost here was for only securing a place and provide food for the working meeting (USD250)
  • Miscellaneous - Payment on Transfers, conversion, transportation and bank charges (USD50)

TOTAL SPENT USD 2,480

Remaining funds

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Do you have any remaining grant funds?

No funds remained

Anything else

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Anything else you want to share about your project?

We have some pictures of the entire event below: Participants during the training & Awards for top 3 students

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    Participant_of_DigitalSkillsforYouth_1.0_Session II
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    Participant_of_DigitalSkillsforYouth_1.0_Session I
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    Participant_of_DigitalSkillsforYouth_1.0_Edit-a-thon_03
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    Participant_of_DigitalSkillsforYouth_1.0_Session I
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    Participant_of_DigitalSkillsforYouth_1.0_Session II
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