Short description: Continued support of dedicated agents focused on building and growing Polkadot’s builder and community presence in Africa.

In the past 6 months, Polkadot Africa has focused on activating local communities through high-quality events, developer engagement, and grassroots education through online workshops and online bootcamps. 

So far, we've achieved the following in 6 months:

• Engaged 3,000+ people in person.
• Hosted 45+ events across multiple countries. With different types of meetups.
• Onboarded 20+ PBAx participants and 3 currently accepted to PBA Bali!!!
• Participated in the global Encode x Scalable hackathon. Some of our community members won OpenGuild bounties.
• Hosted Runtime developers' calls. Thereby, attracting builders actively contributing to the Polkadot SDK.
• Grown our online community to 1,000+ active members.
• Steadily streamlining resources for the community through our website.
• Read more about our milestones and achievements here

This proposal seeks 1 year of funding to expand on that momentum, shifting from activation to retention, education, developer community growth and builder support.

Context for this proposal

Africa presents a unique opportunity for Polkadot. Real-life events have unlocked trust and accelerated onboarding. However, sustained growth requires deeper support for builders, more accessible learning paths, and localised resources. The next step is to foster a collaborative strategy towards onboarding developers, pushing brand awareness, and streamlined first-class support for builders to build use cases on the network that apply to Polkadot and Africa.

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