Wikimania 2022/Scholarships/Wikimedia Ghana User Group/Report

Goals

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

Wikimedia Ghana User Group sought to offer its members and other Ghanaian Wikimedians access to scholarships to participate fully in the Wikimania 2022 activities. This is the second year we have offered scholarships to our members, and we took some of the learnings from last year into account when administering this year's scholarship process. In terms of giving data scholarships, we exceeded the goal we set for ourselves and all the participants who accessed it were excited.

Outcome

Please report on your original project targets.

Target outcome	Achieved outcome	Explanation
40 participants to receive data stipends to participate in Wikimania virtually	48 participants received data stipends to participate in Wikimania	We exceeded our number by 8 because we received more people and we couldn't turn them down. And this time we had people from other user groups coming to us for data stipends to attend Wikimania.
1 Post-Wikimania Event	Organized 1 Post-Wikimania event and one other satellite event at the Ghana Institute of Journalism	We hosted 1 Post-Wikimania event as stated and had 11 people join us in-person and about 11 people joining us online at a point during the event. We also had an opportunity to be invited by the Ghana Institute of Journalism to introduce the women to Wikipedia editing and Wikimania through their Women's Week celebrations.
5 Hardware and Childcare Support	3 Hardware and 1 childcare support	In all we had hardware support for 3 of the participants and then 1 person asked for childcare services.

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?

One of the learnings from last year we corrected this year was sending scholarship recipients the money for the data and letting them purchase it themselves helped a lot of the participants purchase their data bundles on time.
This year showed an increased interest in scholarship recipients across our regions. We also had many such participants outside Accra from the Northern Ghana Region.
We had a community that trusted us by giving them an informative Post-Wikimania workshop and were willing to go all out to ensure we were successful.
Over 96% of the people who filled out our post-Wikimania survey said the data scholarship serve the purpose it was intended to serve during the virtual Wikimania.

What did not work so well?

Our Wikimania gift arrived so late, so we couldn't give it to participants during our post-Wikimania event.
A lot of the data scholarship recipient followers complain about challenges with the Mobile Application use for the virtual Wikimania.

Finances

Grant funds spent

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

Data Scholarship

Data Scholarships = ¢8750
Taxes and charges = ¢189.66
Hardware = ¢780
Childcare support = ¢200
Taxes and charges = ¢26.71

Total = ¢9946.37

Post-Wikimania Events

Transportation to the bank and from = ¢100
Payment of Venue for Post-Wikimania Event = ¢800
Airtime for volunteers to call data scholarship recipients = ¢100
Printed Swag(T-shirts, Tote bags and stickers) = ¢1760
Transportation for participants = ¢1,100
Snacks = ¢420.64
Food = ¢300
Internet data = ¢500
Volunteer Stipend = ¢400
Data stipend for online participants = ¢950
Airtime = ¢50
Payment of Duty for Wikimania Surprise = ¢789
Payment of Transport to pick up Wikimania package = ¢250
Hardware for projection = ¢500
GIJ Training Workshop = ¢500
Data Protection Commission Meetings = ¢300
Transportation Allowance = ¢200
Visit Data Protection Commission = ¢200

Total = ¢9,219.64

Grand Total = ¢19,166.01

Remaining funds

Do you have any remaining grant funds?

Remaining funds 2022: ¢3483.99

Remaining funds from 2021: ¢105.49

Update: All remaining funds has been spent.

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.

Anything else

Anything else you want to share about your project?