Grants:Project/Rapid/Wiki Loves Earth Tanzania 2021/Report

Report accepted

This report for a Rapid Grant approved in FY 2021-22 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/Wiki Loves Earth Tanzania 2021.
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Goals

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

Yes, we did meet ans surpased our goals and we are very happy with how the project went. We were able to recruit a good number of photographers who participated in a photo hunt to capture images from some of the Tanzania protected areas.

Outcome

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

Target outcome	Achieved outcome	Explanation
At least 50 community members participate in the contest activities and at least 20 photographers participate in the contest	24 participants were able to join our in-person and 29 others in an online call that aimed at providing education on Photographs. Among these, we were able to involve only	Goal was met
At least 200 good photos uploaded to Wiki Commons	400+ photos were uploaded and Landing page and Winners please look here.	Goal was met (you can visit WLETZCATEGORY 1 WLETZ CATEGORY 2 and WLETZ CATEGORY 3) and WLETZ CATEGORY 4
Number of photos used on Wikimedia projects: At least 20 photos used in Wikipedia articles	This is still in progress and we expect at the end of this month, the goal will be met.	on progress

Learning

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What worked well?

We were able to travel to one of the National parks in Tanzania (Nyerere National park) which is listed as one of the areas in danger. This was one of the good experiences and the fact that we were able to capture more photos from there.

Renting of tools such as Good camera and having experienced photogrpahers helped to get good photos.

What did not work so well?

Financial resources were not adequate to involve more photographers and visit more protected areas for photo hunt.

Women turn out not so good despite several announcements for them to participate.

The lack of Female photographers itself in our community is a challenge

What would you do differently next time?

:Continue to put some effort into raising awareness on the importance of Women participation on Photo related projects

Application of community support fund would help to involve more participants (especially Women)

Finances

Grant funds spent

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

Below is the fund expenditure breakdown for the received fund.

Proposed budget (USD)	Actual budget	Comment
173USD for data bundles	125	(Data bundles for online sessions and photo uploading sessions)
350USD for awards	350	(200USD, 100USD, 50USD gift vouchers for 1st, 2nd and 3rd winners respectively)
340USD for equipment rentals	365	Renting cameras and useful lenses to support photographers to capture distant images
60USD for subscriptions to online events platforms	47	(For online meet-ups and judges sessions)
60USD for social media promotion (promoting the contest and link to upload photos)	41	(promoting the contest and link to upload photos)
200USD for snacks for 25 people for two photo uploading sessions (The sessions will help us teach photographers on how to upload photos on Wiki Commons)	213
810USD for photo hunt (We will take experienced and upcoming photographers to the nearest protected site for photo hunt as a way to train upcoming photographers on taking natural landscape and wildlife photography as we collect photos from the site and to help upcoming photographers contribute good photos in Wiki Commons and in upcoming contents)	852	This was used to both Saadani National park and at Nyerere National park
TOTAL	1993	USD

Remaining funds

Do you have any remaining grant funds?

No fund is remaining, all fund was used up for the project.

Anything else

Anything else you want to share about your project?

YES, the top 3 Winners for the general WLE competition and the top 3 Winners for the WHindanger project are all HERE. Moreover, we thank the WMF for supporting this competition in Tanzania.