Grants:Wikimedia UG Nigeria Grants/Wikimedia User Group Nigeria Community Support Fund/Demystify disabilities on the disabled: The Wikipedia approach

Project summary

Briefly summarize your project proposal.

This project seeks to identify with people living with disabilities especially, women. In this project, we shall donate our knowledge to translate concerned pages via Wikipedia. This is achievable with public health department students of Imo State College of health and management services, Nwangele L.G.A, Imo State. In this project, articles relating to disabled men and women, especially of women shall be translated. These students shall be engaged on translate-a-thon.

Wikimedia Project

Please state the Wikimedia project your project will focus majorly on (e.g. English Wikipedia, Wikidata, etc). It is advisable to focus on one Wikimedia project, but a maximum of two projects is allowed.

Wikipedia

Contact person and Location

Please state the contact details of the contact person(s) for this project including email(s) and location. For more than one contact person, indicate same details for everyone

Full name: Onwuka Glory Ahunna
Email address: gloryahunna@gmail.com
Address: Owerri, Imo state
Location of Project: Nwangele

Project class

Please state if you are applying as an individual or a network/club

As individual

Timeline of activities

Please state the timeline of your activities, and include the start and end date for your project

1 month (from 1/10/2024 - 31/10/2024

Project Goal

Choose one or more of the following goals. Feel free to add or delete goals as required by your project.

recruit new editors
Add or improve content
Wiki awareness creation

Project Plan

Activities

Tell us how you'll carry out your project. Be sure to answer the following questions:

1. Are you doing one editathon or training or a series of editathons or trainings?

I will do one training and one translate-a-thon

2. How have you let relevant Wikimedia communities know about this proposal? You may also provide information about external social media channels you may be using.

I made my network coordinator know about this

3. How will you let participants know about the edit-a-thon? In what ways will you be communicating with them?
For example, these can include on-wiki spaces, social media channels, mailing lists, messaging apps, or physical/online gatherings.

We have a Watssap group, I will convey the information therein.

4. Do you have experienced Wikimedia editors to lead/assist the event? Please provide links to the usernames of these individuals. (NOTE: all experienced Wikimedia editors MUST endorse and sign your proposal as proof of availability)
For example: User:Kaizenify

The organizer: User:Onwuka Glory

Co-facilitator:User:Chiziqa

5. Do participants have the equipment or skills needed to participate and contribute high quality content? If not, how will you support them?

The students do have smart phones, I and my co- facilitator have laptops. I will make use of projector to assist them in learning what am teaching easily

6. How will you engage participants after the event(s)?

We have a group a chat, anyone having issue can seek for clarification via group channel.

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

No

Impact

How will you know if the project is successful and you've met your goals? Please include the following targets (only those applicable to your project):

Number of events - 1
Number of participants - 40
Number of new editors - 20
Number of of articles created -
Number of of articles improved - 100
Number of of images uploaded -
Number of repeat participants (for projects that include a series of events) -

Metrics tracking

How do you plan to track your project metrics? (do not create a metrics dashboard until your project has been approved for funding) I will use Wikimedia outreach dashboard

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, Onwuka Glory is the project lead/ organizer while Chiziqa is the co-facilitator. I, Onwuka Glory will train the students on Wikipedia pages translation, write report, respond to online questions; and others. While User: Chiziqa will assist the new volunteers in creating account, create flier, respond to questions and others.

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

hall fee ------------ N15,000
Hiring of projector - N15,000
Flex banner -------- N10,000
Hiring of vehicle ---- N15,000
Diesel --------------- N15,000
internet data for students--(40) N40,000
internet data for lecturers---(2) N 2,000
Prize award ----------------------- N25,000
Refreshment ---------- Drinks 3 & half packs --------N18,900

           ------------ water              --------N 9,450
           ------------ food N2,500 each      -------N100,000

photographer -----------------------------------------N15,000
Facilitator's stipend ---------N10,000 x 2------------N20,000
Contingency ------------------------------------------N10,000
Total ------------------------------------------------N310,350.00

Endorsements

Community members are encouraged to endorse your project request here!

I, Chiziqa will be present for the to assist the new volunteers, respond to questions and more. I therefore, endorse this application.

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