Grants:Project/Rapid/Celestinesucess/Wiki Tours North of Ghana/Report

Report accepted

This report for a Rapid Grant approved in FY 2018-19 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/Celestinesucess/Wiki Tours North of Ghana.
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Goals

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

We could not meet all our goals but I am happy that we did achieve some of our goals.

Outcome

Please report on your original project targets. We wanted to:

Organise two training workshops (one training workshop in each school)
Establish two Wikipedia clubs (one club in each school)
Recruit 10 new editors
Create 12 new articles on English Wikipedia
Upload at least 50 pictures to Wikimedia Commons
Increase readership for the students

Target outcome	Achieved outcome	Explanation
Organise two training workshops (one training workshop in each school)	Organised three training workshops in one school	We gained access to the tertiary school but not a senior high school due to the beureucratic nature of the educational system in Ghana. We gained access to Bawku Senior High School, but the school does not have an ICT lab we decided not to organise the training there since it will be impossible to retain the project in such a situation.
Establish two Wikipedia clubs (one club in each school)	We established only one Wikipedia Club at the University for Development Studies	It is becoming long and impossible to gain access to a senior high school in Upper East. We gained access to Bawku Senior High School, but the school does not have an ICT lab we decided not to organise the training there since it will be impossible to sustain the club in such a situation.
Recruit at least 10 new editors	Recruited about 30 new editors
Create 12 new articles on English Wikipedia	About 30 new articles were created on English Wikipedia
Upload at least 50 pictures to Wikimedia Commons	Uploaded about 74 pictures to Wikimedia Commons
Increase readership for the students	We provided one Internet-In-a-Box to the club
None	We organized one photowalk session to introduce students to Wik Loves Monuments since it was happening in the month of September

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?

With the help of a lecturer, It was easy getting access to the tertiary institution

What did not work so well?

Due to the strict curriculum and bureaucracy of the senior high schools, our permission to have access to the students wasn't granted by the school's authorities.

What would you do differently next time?

Send out letters to schools on time especially the senior high schools. If we had a contact person, just like we did for UDS, I believe it would have been easy to get access to at least one senior high school.

Finances

Grant funds spent

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

Item	Total GHS	Comments
DETAILS OF FIRST EVENT
Printing T-shirts	200
Internet-In-a-Box	430
Transportation	590	Transportation from Kasoa to Navrongo, from home to event venue and back
Feeding for participants	1250	We were expecting all 50 participants who registered
Water for participants	34	two bags of sachet water for making breakfast for participants and one box of bottled water for drinking
Feeding for Volunteers	200	100 cedis each
Internet	230
Credit for calling and reminding participants	50
DETAILS OF SECOND EVENT
Transportation for team	250	This includes transportation of volunteers to and from the venue and transportation of food and drinks to venue
Feeding for participants	750	We were expecting all 30 participants who registered
Water for participants	34	two bags of sachet water for making breakfast for participants and one box of bottled water for drinking
Feeding for Volunteers	200	100 cedis each
Internet	230
Credit for calling and reminding participants	50
DETAILS OF THIRD EVENT
Transportation for team	250	This includes transportation of volunteers to and from the venue and transportation of food and drinks to venue
Feeding for participants	500	We were expecting all 20 participants who registered
Water for participants	34	two bags of sachet water for making breakfast for participants and one box of bottled water for drinking
Feeding for Volunteers	200	100 cedis each
Internet	230
Credit for calling and reminding participants	50
PHOTO WALK
Transportation	178	Transportation from Navrongo Cathedral to Navrongo Station then from Navrongo Station to Pikworo Slave Camp
Entrance fee to Pikworo Slave Camp	60
Beverages, Biscuits, Disposable Cups, Tissue and spoons for breakfast for participants	300	for all three events
Transportation from Navrongo to Kasoa	330
Grand Total	6630

Remaining funds

Do you have any remaining grant funds?

No remaining funds

Anything else

Anything else you want to share about your project?

List of Articles Created - [1]
First Event - [2]
Second Event - [3]
Third Event - [4]
Photowalk - [5]