Grants:Project/Rapid/The Living love/Wikipedia Awareness in Kaduna metropolis/Report

Report accepted

This report for a Rapid Grant approved in FY 2017-18 has been reviewed and accepted by the Wikimedia Foundation.

To read the approved grant submission describing the plan for this project, please visit Grants:Project/Rapid/The Living love/Wikipedia Awareness in Kaduna metropolis.
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Goals

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

Yes of course, we have achieved our goals and are very happy with the projects' outcome. We were able to carryout all of our planned proposals. Thanks to Wikimedia foundation for the support and believing in us to do this. The project documentation can be found here Wikipedia Awareness in Kaduna metropolis.

Outcome

Please report on your original project targets.

Target outcome	Achieved outcome	Explanation
If atleast Number of total participants reach 60	100+ participated during the projects	these are the number of people that participated during the whole events and reached out to more than thousand persons, because we printed 1000copies of pamphlets/fliers and all have been shared during the project.
If atleast the Number of new contributors join reach 15	30+ New users have been engaged with registered accounts	We have 30+ registered accounts created.
Increase in number of pageviews to Hausa Wikipedia	Yes page viewers/readers have increased during the project	Yes we have had increase in page views/readers on Hausa Wikipedia since the start of the project, information can found here statistics Hausa Wikipedia
Addition of quality content and improve stubs during the project	Met	Stubs have been expanded and quality contents were added to the project during the project.

Learning

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?

The level of support and encouragement from the organizations we visited, the kind of discussions talked, the interest shown by the students and the people met, the fun enjoyed during the project is absolutely incredible. Though most people we'd met did not know about Wikipedia Editing prior to our encounter but have really shown full interest and some have already joined us and are currently active in Hausa Wikipedia project.

What did not work so well?

Since this is my first project, I did not expected everything to be so well, we have faced some challenges like the timing and the budget, we conducted all the activities day by day without interval which made some of us stressful due to funds were received not in time, we did not expect spending all of our budgeted amount but as a result of continuous inflation rates in the country nowadays most price of goods hiked but still we were able to carried out the project accordingly. And at some public places we have encountered delay or refusal to allow us take photographs, they are requesting letter of approval from a government agency that oversee the place, and because that would take us more time to do so we stop it.

What would you do differently next time?

We would try to organize future initiatives in good time and bring proposals for how the project is going to be carried out collaboratively, and also to contact all visiting organizations in time.

Finances

Grant funds spent

Please describe how much grant money you spent for approved expenses, and tell us what you spent it on.

Budget

S/N	Item	Quantity	Budgeted (NGN)	Grant spent (NGN)	Explanation
Trainings
1	Training space	1	100,000	50,000 = 50,000	we got space for the training at 50,000
2	Computer hire and Data (internet access)	1	40,000	25,000 + 15,000 = 40,000	for 25 computers hired and Data for Internet access
3	Snacks and refreshments	50	20,000	40,000 + 20,000	I mistakenly wrote 20,000 instead of 40,000 since it's 2,000 of 20participants as budgeted, and still the number of participants that came for the training reached 50 including the organizers and Volunteers, that's why we added another 20,000 to buy drinks/snacks for the unbudgeted increment pf the participants as it's initially, which rose the total expense to 60,000
4	Bus tickets	5	20,000	20,000	spent as budgeted for bus tickets to/from to reimburse organizers for the training
5	Banner	NA	30,000	30,000	spent as budgeted for Banners.
Trip expenses
6	Food & Beverages	6trips X 5persons	2,000	60,000	Refreshment for organizers/volunteers during the trips.
7	Transport	6trips	80,000	80,000	Tricycles hire for all the trips, Tricycles hired at 80,000 for transportation during the Trips.
8	Fliers/pamphlets	--	30, 000	30, 000	spent as budgeted for fliers and pamphlets shared during the trips
9	Calls/Transport	--	15,000	15, 000	15,000 is spent during processing of the projects for calls and transport.
-	TOTAL PROJECT COST	1	385, 582	385, 500