Grants:Project/Rapid/Lomoraronald/Wiki Loves Africa 2022 in South Sudan/Report

Report accepted

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

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Goals

Did you meet your goals? Are you happy with how the project went? yes i met a couple of my goals as meant, though some were not met due to some challenegs

Outcome

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

I didnt reach the trageted number of photography contributions because most of my targeted audience as particpants were faced with an abrupt exam perios, within the month of our photography campaign making not to contribute as expected, but i was rather welcomed with yet quality photos that made us reach our goals of having not only a qaunity photos but quality photos that can tell a story and the photos could be used in wikipedia articles.

Target outcome	Achieved outcome	Explanation
500 photos	250 photos	we were faced by security limitations that avoided some of our photographers from taking some photos and others where forced to delete their photos before they were uplaoded
60 contributors	20 contributors	Most of our photographers feared and a few of them participated in the photo contest, but these have been solved with permissions we asked from the different authorities

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?

We had a successful launch that introduced new memebrs to contributing to wikimedia, we achieved a couple of teh gaols that include getting realistic pictures that tell the stories of south sudans home and habitat. We formed a union of photographers who came togther for a common cause, networked photographers and trained them on how they could contribute to wikimedia.

• What did not work so well?

We had security challneges as south sudan is a country recovereing from war we had limitations of taking some photos since the security suspect photographers as photojounalists who can tell a story that maynot favour them

• What would you do differently next time?

As for relevant permissions form different stake holders and make them part of the project that just obeying the certification to run programs, which we have.

Finances

Grant funds spent

Please describe how much grant money you spent for approved expenses, and tell us what you spent it on. 450 USD for prizes. $200/$150/$100 for top three prizes and $100 for top new user 1200 USD for the first training on the use of Wikipedia commons and other sister platforms, since this is a new community in South Sudan. We shall need to aware of our populations and train them (600 USD venue, 400 USD Refreshment, 200 USD internet)

Remaining funds

Do you have any remaining grant funds? No

Anything else

Anything else you want to share about your project? The project was successful to my understanding looking at the values than the metrics i see the project being one that aided in the creation of a diffrent narrative of south sudan via Photos talking about the culture in the home and habitat of the people.