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Communications and Alumni Officer Vacancy We are seeking someone diligent and hard working with communication skills, alongside some experience in campaigning or advocacy and event planning to help us expand the Future First work in Kenya. The Alumni & Communication Officer should also be attentive to detail and be familiar with coordinating the day-to-day operations of a small, dynamic organization. For more details of the job, please access this link here. Comms and Alumni Relations Job Description …

Guest blog post by David Romain who ran the #backtoschool campaign in Ghana for Future First Global. My time working in Ghana coincided with Future First Global’s #backtoschool week, the launch of a 5 year plan to turn schools into communities on a Global Scale. As soon as Future First’s founders discovered of my whereabouts I was signed up as their Ghana partner. My mission was to establish what local people would be prepared to do to say thank you to their old school and support a local alumni event. What I discovered was a series of local schools with well-established alumni networks forming active communities with their …

Guest blog post by Emily Holgate, who led the Back to School Campaign in Spain. Barcelona is becoming one of the main social hubs of Europe, if not the world. When I moved here last summer, there was a resounding agreement from friends and family that Barcelona is the coolest, trendiest, most sociable city that they have ever visited. And it hasn’t failed me yet! For Future First España, we wanted to take advantage of Barcelona’s innovative, social aspect. We knew it would be difficult as guiris (“foreigners”) to reach out to local schools and ask to talk about careers …

We are hiring! We are looking to recruit a full-time Research and Partnerships Officer for a fixed five month contract from 1st March 2016, based in central London. We are seeking someone diligent and hard working with excellent research and analysis skills alongside some experience of communication, campaigning or advocacy to help us take the Future First model internationally. The Research and Partnerships Officer will also be attentive to detail and be familiar with coordinating the day-to-day operations of a small, dynamic charity. For more details of the job, please access this link here.   The application deadline is 10am on 19th February …

Rishi Kaashyap, an alumni of TVS Academy (Hosur, India), wrote this letter to his 16-year-old self: “ Dream big! It is when life starts to unveil itself and at the outset imagine yourself to have become the best person you can think of in the next 10 years. Draw a picture of then and now and with the belief that the changes you want are coming close, do something everyday that takes you closer to your dream. Plan to plan. Never procrastinate. Set short term goals and achieve them. Establish your credibility in subtle ways, earn your parents’ trust. Talk …

  Two-week campaign mobilises citizens to support their old schools across 10 countries in Europe, Africa and Asia The last 2 days saw the Back to School campaign turn truly international. The alumni of TVS Academy in Hosur (India) went into a local school to give careers talks and help paint a school mural. In Cameroon, the Delegate of Secondary Education officially endorsed the Back to School Campaign and encouraged the citizens of Cameroon to go back to their former schools to inspire the youth. In Ghana, our partner was invited to speak at the 25th anniversary celebrations at Oguaa Senior …

Thomas Goh, from CARE Singaporean is a guest blogger on our Back to School Campaign. CARE run mentoring and life skills programmes with at-risk young people in school. Thomas attended one of their programmes when he was in school, and now works for the organisation. Here is Thomas’s journey with CARE Singapore: It was almost 20 years ago when I was introduced to the mentoring programme through CARE Singapore. I was only 13 years old. I was never interested in my studies and always looking for opportunity to skip lessons. I was never that motivated kid that enjoys school. On one …

My first day working on the Asante Shule campaign felt uncannily like my first day back at school. There was excitement, there was confusion, there was nostalgia, and there was a sense of novelty. The campaign, run by Future First Kenya, wants to encourage alumni to go back and give back to their former schools. The first day of the Asante Shule campaign kicked off in CBD at the Kencom bus station. Armed with whiteboards and pens, we took to the streets and asked people what they would like to tell their 16-year-old self. What they wish they had known …

Imagine if every school in the world was a community. Imagine if every young person had access to a network of relatable role models, work experience and mentors, all alumni of their school, from their communities; all ready to go back and give back. That is the vision of Future First Global. The ‘Back to School’ campaign (‘Asante Shule’ in Kenya) will be held during the first week in February to mobilise every former student to think about what they can do for their old school. Why Future First Global’s international research (conducted with polling through IPSOS) reveals that while …

Our vision is to make Kenya the third country, after the UK and Germany, where national-scale support for alumni programming exists, focusing in this case on the communities most in need. In order to develop a national alumni strategy for Kenya and place alumni engagement at the heart of government policy, advocacy and campaigning is one of our key objectives. While this might seem daunting for a small charity like ours, we managed to secure support from BBH London, one of the world’s most famous creative advertising agencies, with the help from The International Exchange (or TIE, for short – …