We fought, we saw and we conquered. My heart is filled with gladness as my team and I are very fulfilled for the success we recovered in our humanitarian meetup (stage 1). It all looked impossible at the begining, especially after writting a post about this at the initial stage and for some hours nobody upvoted the post. I almost thought i was in the wrong place and community. But not very long the upvote started comming in and the post attracted about 134 upvotes and was gingered by the supports received from steemians.
We went further to submit a letter to the school we intended to visit notifying them of our intention. The news of our coming was welcomed by the Head teacher of GSS, Mararaba. I can recall him saying to me "i hope you will come on your proposed date", that you wont be like others that said they are coming and never did. It downed on me that i needed to make this happen after receiving approval for the humanitarian project/meetup.
A major challenge faced was finance. I kept thinking how we were going to accomplish this project because finance received was less than the budget for the project. I made this promise to my self "that even if i will have to use my salary to accomplish the project, i will make it happen" and 
We had a lot to do considering the fact that it was the first of its kind - a humanitarian meetup with students and teachers. We presented note books and biros, produced t-shirts for edusteem project team, produced banner, rented projector, rented a public address system, light refreshment for teachers, etc.
continues the gift presentation
students begging 
We all went in 
For this stage we went with just 300 branded steem exercise books, 50 steem crested biros which is far below the total population of students in the school(over 2000 students). Though, we promised we would come back and present books and biros to the remaining students, which is dependent on upvotes and supports from all of us(steemians).
students reciting the Nigerian Anthem
The program started with the students reciting the Nigerian National Anthem and Pledge with passion in a happy mood awaiting the full commencement of the events after which the Assitant Head Teacher gave the opening remark.
The school assistant head teacher addressing the student and singing Nigeria's
The event commenced fully with 
Since it was already time for school dismisal, we had to attend to students not to bore them with much talks and allow them depart to the various destinations. We presented the steem branded books and biros to them.
The teachers also had a session alone with the edusteem team where we had more discussions about the steem blockchain and registered a few teachers. All were interested but asked how they can join us since we said they needed a good android phone and data. This was their major complain and as teachers most of them cannot afford a steemable phone, since getting good android phone will cost at least 35SBD's.
Sharing of drinks going on
The teachers were entertained with drinks and doughnuts as we continued with the event and 
@Farida motivating teachers as she speaks
We didnt stop at that as 
We concluded the event with registration of newbies interested in joining the steem blockchain even though it seems there are slight issues with registrations for now. I heard some saying "please register me, i just can't wait to become a member."
The event came to a successful end as we all had great fun and the teachers asked us to come back soon for a follow up and reach the rest of the students that didn't get our educational materials.
I am so grateful to the edusteem team
Our appreciation
My appreciation also goes to steemit whales and witnesses, Nigeria Steemit Community and steemians as a whole who have been upvoting our posts. Thanks a bunch for all your support.
