INTRODUCING: STEEMIT ACCELERATOR HUB (STACH).

The Steemit Accelerator Hub, (STACH) is an accelerator planned with Nigerians in mind as a particular target and newbies in general. Like any thriving hub, STACH is concerned with offering first the one thing that is lacking in the Nigerian and African Steemit space-- an Education, and then Collaboration.
Without an opportunity for education and collaboration, subsequent growth and productivity become dormant or impossible.

After several meetings and discussions with @donkeypong who by the way, has taken it upon himself to promote the Nigeria brand here on Steemit, it became imperative that there needs to be a rallying point where the average Nigerian youth can get educated and trained on the workings and benefits of Steemit. This move will provide an enabling community for collaboration and growth.

WHY STACH
Looking around Nigeria, you will see a disappointing reality of the failure of a system that only teaches dependency on state provided jobs and assets, and this has made it near impossible for the youths and citizenry to aspire beyond what they are thought to know.
With the discovery of Steemit by most Nigerians, we have come to see a much bigger world that teaches self dependency and growth powered by community participation. A place where liberty-minded people are welcomed to create their world, mine their earnings, and transact in STEEM cryptocurrency that is instant and free to use.

THE TEAM
The STACH team is made up of myself @ejemai, @outhori5ed, @kamaraoti, @kennyc and @dante21 and our technical adviser is @donkeypong. Each member of the team are versed in various activities and we will be revealing these in future posts.

ACHIEVEMENTS SO FAR

We have been working tirelessly behind the scenes in recruiting Nigerians on Steemit and we have also gone a step further to educate them about the Steemit ecosystem. We recently stormed the University of Port Harcourt for the first ever Steemit promotion in Nigeria and we successfully shared 700 flyers to students and lecturers, opened 20 new accounts on the spot and presently managing over 80 intending steemians via a whatsapp group, and we are gradually onboarding them.

BENEFITS
The hub is going to serve a useful purpose for Nigerians in particular and for the Steemit ecosystem in general.

An education and training center.- The Steemit Accelerator Hub will be a meeting point for training and the education of newbies and also for existing members looking to invest further I Steemit and the many other ventures associated with it. It is clear that without an education development and active growth will be minimal and practically impossible.
A Collaboration/Meeting center.- The hub will serve as a collaboration and meeting center for steemians in the city the hub is located. Technological, technical and financial investment collaborations will be facilitated through the hub, as most people are only aware that they can blog on Steemit.
The hub will be the address for the holding of meetups, planning for rallies and parades and a general meeting point for all things steem looking to take place in and around the city.
Free WiFi center.- Running a successful internet life in Nigeria costs between N10,000 to N25,000 monthly and for those on "semi-successful" plans, N5,000 to N10,000 is the price, (any plan below that is epileptic, like the power situation). The hub will provide free WiFi service for steemians to enable them get online and steem.
Of course, free WiFi means well and with the constant power failure as experienced in Nigeria, the hub will be home to steemians who will truly live in the steemit ecosystem that provides everything to enable their growth.
Freedom center.- This is particularly what the hub will represent and it will be a win for the average Nigerian youth who truly deserve a chance at participating in contests, competitions and developmental endeavors like their peers in developed communities.
We are particularly sure that the hub will be a place where new innovations that will add to Steemit and even best it will be born. Peer to Peer exchange will be the order of the day.

6 MONTH TARGET
The purpose for the hub's creation is to encourage participation and provide an education and training center for Nigerians who are and will be getting involved in the new reality that is Steemit. We have a target to before the end of the first 6 months of operation, register, train and educate at least 10,000 Nigerians who can hold their own on the Steemit platform and even become trending earners and investors.
There is also the overall target of #Project20millionNaija that is expected to start from the first STACH and gradually getting to other hubs which are penciled to kick off in other locations in the coming months.

MODEL
STACH will become a model that we plan to replicate around the 36 states of the Nigerian federation in a bid to facilitate peer to peer exchange and get 20 million people on Steemit by 2018.
The #Project20millionNaija campaign we started a while back will only be achieved through the creation of at least 2 STACH centers in major cities of the country. Registering new Nigerians is not enough, helping then remain in Steemit and staying grounded with the workings and operations of the platform and returning as winners is the goal.
After the Port Harcourt launch, we anticipate opening more locations around the country before the end of the year.

COSTS OF SETTING UP THE FIRST STACH
Setting up of STACH which is the first in the series of a developmental marvel will be in the University of Port Harcourt axis so as to be able to capture the students and budding youthful community resident in the Oil Rich State of Nigeria.

Description	Cost Naira- (USD)
Rental of Space (1yr)	280,000 - 766.60
Generator	100,000 - 273.79
Computer, UPS	150,000 - 410.68
Chairs, Tables, fans	50,000 - 136.89
Airconditioner	65,000 - 164.27
Designs & Misc	30,000 - 82.14
Total	675,000 - 1848.06USD

Six Hundred and Seventy Five Thousand Naira only. --One Thousand Eight Hundred and Forty Eight Dollars, Six cents

RUNNING OF STACH
Running and management of STACH will be done under defined guidelines and this will make collaboration possible and profitable. We will be releasing the operational scope and settings before the launch.

We believe with this initiative we have just set in motion a unique machinery that will enable the exponential and unstoppable growth of Steemit from the Nigeria end.