Africa Environment/Microfunding/Environmental Advocacy Through Photo Walk in Ghana

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This request for micro-funding to Africa Environment has just been submitted by Fquasie on 13-02-2023 and is awaiting support.

Description

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According to the World Bank Group’s new Country Climate and Development Report (CCDR) for Ghana in November, 2022, On average, flooding affects around 45,000 Ghanaians every year, and half of Ghana's coastline is vulnerable to erosion and flooding as a result of sea-level rise. Many developing countries around the world are fighting to end the menace of climate issues in order to make the environment clean and healthier, and Ghana is no exception.

It’s important to address this issue to help raise awareness and advocate to achieve the goals in making our environment clean and healthy for all of us. In Ghana one of our main challenges as a country is keeping our environment healthy for everyone.

These series of photowalks will focus on capturing environmental images that depict the current state of Ghana’s environmental issues such as climate change, floods, fumes from vehicles, excessive burning of refuse/trash, improper disposal of refuse among others.

Also, these photowalks intend to capture the other side of environmental interventions by innovative individuals and organizations such as tree planting exercises, from trash to bin inventions by local social enterprises that seek to reverse the trend of environmental degradation among others.

Context

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The grant request is in the context of Images that will be taken by photographers which will be uploaded to Wikimedia Commons, and will be a resource for accessibility to be used on Wikimedia and Wikipedia projects related to the environment. It will also serve as a resource to garner images for articles created to commemorate the Wangari Maathai Day and other climate related campaigns in Africa.

Participants are Wikimedia community volunteers and skilled photographers who upload the images on Wikimedia Commons.

Team

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Francis Quasie (username: Fquasie) is a Wikimedia volunteer and a long time contributor to Wikimedia Commons on several campaigns. He is the lead organizer of this photo walk/tour project.

Nana Darkoaa Ofori Boateng (username: Nana Darkoaaa) is a student volunteer and contributor to Wikimedia commons.

Fallout

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Three (3) photo walks in two regions of Ghana will be organised in total, the Greater Accra and the Central Region. Two (2) photo walks will be organized in the Greater Accra Region, while the other will be in the Central Region. Five volunteers will be involved in this photowalk.

1.      Number of participants - 5

2.      Target - 250 photos

Budget

Object	Unit price (USD)	Quantity	Total (USD)
Transportation of volunteers to two (2) regions Greater Accra -Central Region. Round trip	80	5	400
Food and Water for three (3) photowalks in two (2) regions	35 x 3	5	525
Covid-19 PPE( Nose Mask, Hand sanitizer)	30	1	30
Internet Data	25	5	125
Total			1,080 USD

Any changes made to the budget after the application is submitted will void the application. You will then need to submit an updated application

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• Ruby D-Brown (talk) 11:25, 21 February 2023 (UTC)
• I support this project Kaffzz (talk) (Eugene Masiku)