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Hive account@sndbox reaches out to creative individuals and communities of all experience levels. Our goal is to raise awareness towards new projects and help connect them with both new and experienced Steemians. (50% of the SBD earned from this post will go directly to 
Hive account@ejemai’s account to support his content and @STACH initiatives.)
Welcome to Sndbox Spotlights!
Today we’re joined by Ejemai, the founder of 
Hive account@stach (STACH) the Steemit Accelerator Hub in Port Harcourt, Nigeria. The Steemit Accelerator Hub, (STACH) is an online community based in Port Harcourt, Nigeria. Hive account@stach is a physical and collaborative workspace that offers free wifi, Steemit education and on-boarding. This is the very first example of a real-life Steemit Storefront. It’s exciting to watch this unprecedented project unfold! The STACH team is using funds from blogging and memberships to empower their local community in new ways. Hive account@sndbox is a long time supporter of STACH through the rubric of our Sndcastle initiative, we're lucky to collaborate with such a talented and enthusiastic group of Steemians!
Hive account@sndbox : Hi Ejemai! In a few words - how would you describe yourself?
Hive account@ejemai : Hello Sndbox, good to be here! I am just a random guy with the community at heart. Founder of Hive account@stach.
Hive account@sndbox : What motivated you to kickstart STACH?
Hive account@ejemai : With the creation of the First Steem Accelerator Hub, we discovered that more and more people of Port Harcourt could benefit from the Steemit platform, this grew from one city to many more, and that is why we are running Nationwide campaigns both online and offline. For those who don't know; STACH is an accelerator seeking to empower Nigeria through blockchain technology and cryptocurrency. Our team partners with local communities to think outside the box.
The #Project20millionNaija Nationwide campaign (recent and ongoing!) seeks to take Steemit to the whole Nigerian Nation. Steemit is a platform that encourages the creative commons to be free and we hope to have it adopted as the number 1 crypto in Nigeria and Africa. I have always been motivated by things that makes living stress free and profitable and Steemit offers a way out.
Hive account@ejemai : The campaign seeks to get as much as 20 million Nigerians to the Steemit platform an also to enable the creation of more Steem Accelerator Hubs around Nigeria.
The campaign is in two phases, the Online- "Go Viral," and the Offline - "Steem the City."
The online campaign is actively targeting various social media platforms as we intend to leverage on the existing numbers of friends and followers Steemit users have on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Twitter, Whatsapp, Medium etc. Sharing the posters and initiating engagements about Steemit is one very quick way we hope to get the message across faster and to as many people as possible.
For the online campaign, we created a 500 SBD reward pool which will be shared among the participants and supporters. Through strategic campaigning around all these traditional social media platforms, we hope to be able to reach each as many as 5 million people each week. From the online and offline campaign, the target is to reach a total 20 million Nigerians.
Steemit campaign conversations through #Project20millionNaija
Hive account@sndbox : Wow, that's a big audience! It's great to see people strategically using traditional social media platforms to spread the word. What's next for #Project20millionNaija?
Hive account@ejemai : The project is ongoing and we expect that when this campaign phase ends we'll have an even bigger audience for the next STACH project. We may have been able to get the attention of the Nigerian people and her government to the new reality that is Steemit and how realistic it is to create national change from the little you have.
STACH has been known to introduce many firsts and we intend to keep doing more, to me, it is just the beginning as we are presently now working on developing at least 3 Accelerators in 3 major cities with a target to have a Steemit offline presence that will help these new recruits and users settle comfortably into the Steemit ecosystem.
A big thanks to Hive account@ejemai for sharing his work with STACH! Be sure to check out his page and keep an eye on the #Project20millionNaija campaign! (50% of the SBD earned from this post will go directly to Hive account@ejemai account to support his content.)
 | Sndcastle's are a collaborative initiative within Sndbox. We work with Steemit community leaders around the world to foster social and creative impact through Steem. Our aim is to grow and promote Steemit through community hubs, encourage meetups, person-to-person onboarding, and physical projects. |
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