Grants:Project/Rapid/May Hachem93/HerStory

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May Hachem/HerStory Initiative

We launched HerStory in 2016, since then we have been working on different aspects: Women Empowerment, Gender Equality, Activism against gender based violence, and other SDGs like Zero Hunger, Good Health and Well Being, Quality Education, Clean Water and Sanitation, and others. Our aim is to defy gender stereotypes and raise awareness about Gender related topics: Child Marriage, Gender based violence, Cyber bullying, female genital mutilation and Sexual Harassment across the Middle East. We chose Wikipedia as our platform, because it the world’s biggest encyclopedia, where all history is documented and one of the main sources of information for the region. I would call it a modern Historian who keeps an eye on everything and document it for our and the coming generations with a very objective, non-biased, neutral language associated with references and documentation to all the information listed. This is how we work in HerStory. We collaborate with some of UN agencies and embassies, our partners in spreading knowledge. We have a core team of 20 members who manage almost 1000 volunteers. We successfully contributed to 2500 articles under open access license to be assessable to everyone in Arabic on the free encyclopedia. We do not have much content about gender in Arabic, if not at all. This is what we are working on, and more topics to be included in our coming phase of HerStory. It is time to create a contest for HerStory to motivate our 4 years old committed volunteers.

start date14 October

end date15 December

budget (local currency)33,004.4 EGP

budget (USD)$2,000

grant typegroup

grantee• May Hachem93

contact(s)• may.h.hashem@gmail.com• may.h.hashem@gmail.com

organization (if applicable)• HerStory

website (if applicable)• Facebook , Website

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Project Goal

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Recruit new editors,
Increase skills for existing editors,
Educate HerStory editors about SDGs
Add or improve content,
Engage more women to narrow the gender gap,
Add more female profiles to Wikipedia,
Engaging Arab world/ Arabic speakers in HerStory and editing Arabic Wikipedia
Expanding regionally/ geographically within Egypt and outside
Improve/ create articles covering the below 12 areas:

Women and poverty
Education and Training of Women
Women and health
Violence against women
Women and Armed Conflict
Women and the Economy
Women in power and decision-making
Mechanisms for the advancement of women
Human rights of women
Women and the media
Women and the environment
The girl-child

Project Plan

Activities

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1. What content will the contest focus on, and why is it important to your community?

I will working on defying stereotypes, Have you heard about Israa Ghareeb? She is a victim of her society stereotypical images. With a better understanding of the way women and girls live their lives, and the specific inequalities and injustices that hold them back every day, communities can better identify the challenges and find solutions to the inequalities. Recognizing the contribution of women through history can defy the current stereotypes about women and provide positive role models for girls and boys. These are the themes of the content:

Women and poverty
Education and Training of Women
Women and health
Violence against women
Women and Armed Conflict
Women and the Economy
Women in power and decision-making
Mechanisms for the advancement of women
Human rights of women
Women and the media
Women and the environment
The girl-child

2. How will you let people know about the contest?

Through our Facebook Page. Here

3. How will you judge the contest and award prizes?

The highest number of contributions in terms of quality & quantity.

4. For photo contests, what is the strategy to get images used on projects?

5. Is there anything else you want to tell us about this project?

Impact

How will you know if the project is successful and you've met your goals? Please include the following targets and feel free to add more:

For photo contests:

Number of participants
Number of photos uploaded to Wikimedia Commons
Number of photos used on Wikimedia projects

For writing contests:

Number of participants : 350 participants
Number of articles created or improved: 1200 articles

Resources

What resources do you have? Include information on who is organizing the project, what they will do, and if you will receive support from anywhere else (in-kind donations or additional funding).

# I do not have any resources to fund this contest.

HerStory "myself" & HerStory Core Team members will be organizing this contest.
I will open a call for volunteers, then they should pass a translation test, then by the end of the duration me and HerStory core team of volunteers will evaluate the articles and rate them based on the quality of the content and the translation and the amount produced.

What resources do you need? For your funding request, list bullet points for each expense and include a total amount.

Number	Category	Item description	Unit	Number of units	Cost per unit	Total cost	Currency
1	Prize	1st prize ː 10th prize	Voucher	10	$50	$500	$
2	Prize	11th prize ː 23th prize	Voucher	13	$40	$520	$
3	HerStory Core Team "Jury"	Facilitation & Quality Control	Voucher	19	$50	$950	$
5	Transportation and printing	Transportation and printing	N/A	N/A	N/A	$30	$
Total						$2000	$

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