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EDUCATION GREENHOUSE PROJECT 2020

= Project Name =

Growing Open and Eco-Friendly Skills(GOES) for the Youth - Ghana

Description
This project has the name Growing Open and Eco-friendly Skills (GOES) for the youth because every implementation of this project should lead to impacting the youth in the areas of skills development, access to quality education, and access to quality nutrition. The youth that accesses our program should contribute to socio-economic development starting from community development and expanding the effect through ambassadorship and mentorship to other youth and other projects. GOES believes that through this ripple effect, the world can be a better place for development and innovation leading to sustainable living.

However, the project incorporates elements of open resources and open communities such as Wikimedia Foundation Sister Projects along with Circular economy concepts. In order for everyone to be able to contribute to knowledge and best practises, it is important to have an open community around projects. In order to live in a safer planet for the current and future generations, it is pertinent to think first about designing out waste right from the onset of project planning and design before implementation - the circular economy.

With all these elements combined, the first implementation of the GOES Project targetted for a rural community to build a community school farm is to :


 * make available open resources through Wikimedia Foundation Sister Projects such as Wikipedia available via Kiwix plugs to learn more and conduct research
 * improve literacy and numeracy skills-by-participation in activities that involve reading, writing and calculations while implementing the community school farm, documenting to enter information on Wikiversity and proof-reading contents for clarity and syntax
 * teach information technology skills which are relevant for future work through editing on Wikimedia Foundation Sister Projects such as Wikiversity and Wikicommons
 * inculcate in the youth collaborative and community development skills through group activities that gets them to work together in planning, designing, implementation, testing, monitoring and evaluating projects
 * equip the youth with the skills identified earlier that will position most of them to be change leaders and change makers when they are either working for other people or when they are entrepreneurs

Target Audience
The GOES project is targetted at senior high school students in rural communities in Ghana who are between the ages of 16 to 19 years and have completed at least one year in senior high school. Our secondary target is teachers and academic leaders in the schools whose influence can lead to the adoption of Open Education Resources(OERs) within their institution and influence similar adoption in other institutions around them. Our second secondary target is the youth in the community who can benefit from literacy and numeracy skills, and technology skills that can go a long way to advancing their project management skills as well.

Exiting Problems and Challenges

 * National distribution of quality educational materials do not always reach schools in the rural areas
 * The rural area lacks quality internet access to be able to have access to Open Education Resources(OERs) online
 * Most teachers and educators with quality teaching pedagogy refuse to go to the rural areas on posting hence local folks with somewhat of teaching qualification either through teacher training school or apprenticeship end up teaching the schools
 * Guardians in the rural areas lack modern knowledge on nutrition and its contribution to brain development and child health
 * Teachers and educator in the rural area do not get access to teacher training programs to improve their delivery in class and expand their skills

Possible Solutions to be provided by the project

 * Through this project, the school will have access to offline and online OER via kiwix plugs and computers
 * Through this project, the students will improve on literacy and numeracy skills by practically engaging in the project activites that are designed for those outcomes
 * Through this project, teachers will gain new knowledge and training in using OER for classroom delivery and personal development
 * Through this project, advocating for better nutrition will be implemented and established through the community school farm operations

Wikimedia Projects to be used
Includes but not limited to:
 * Wikipedia via Kiwix plug
 * Wikiversity online
 * WikiCommons
 * Wikidata

Project Goals

 * To establish a wiki-club on-premises that will facilitate all open movement in the school by April, 2020
 * To engage with 30 students for the year 2020
 * To have a female to male participation of 50:50 ratio
 * To grow carrots, shallots, cabbage, and green pepper on the farm and harvest by May, 2020
 * To confirm that 2 teachers and 30 students can curate content, edit and publish documents on all Wikimedia projects that will be introduced
 * To get about 3 private and public institutions to be stakeholders of the project June, 2020

Project Impact

 * 80% of students who participate in the project feel confident about the future of work and higher education by gaining these skills and knowledge
 * 30% of students who participate in the project will be ambassadors of the training and get at least 10 other community youth to join the club by the end of 2020
 * 90% of the teachers involved in the project have inculcated OER in the classroom delivery
 * 90% of the students can navigate the OER tools with ease
 * 50% of the students want to pursue farming as a community development practice throughout 2020

Internal

 * Communications lead
 * Relationship Associate
 * Project manager
 * Volunteers from the Wikimedia Communities
 * School involved
 * Wikimedia Education Greenhouse Team
 * School Farms
 * Open Foundation West Africa (OFWA)

External

 * Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MOFA)
 * GIZ
 * Media House
 * UNESCO
 * Raspberry Pi

Budget
Step 1: Define the time frame of the project you are working on. ''When will my project start and end? --    Start date 1st January 2020 to 20 May 2020 Step 2: Identify the activities you will conduct in the planning, development, and evaluation stages of your project. ''What activities do I plan to conduct to reach my objectives? - Field Planning, Project Structure Development, Teacher Training, Student Training, Land Preparation, Planting, Harvesting, Club Time''

Step 3: Brainstorm a list of expenses for each of these activities. ''What things and services will I need to purchase to conduct my project from start to end? - The expenses are: Travel and transportation allowance; hardware components such as laptops, kiwix plugs and mobile phone; ''

Advocacy Message
Audience for this message : Government institutions on Education and Youth Development, and Private Institutions supporting in capacity building for the youth.