Future First Global and CARE Foundation have been awarded a grant from the Small Charities Challenge Fund (SCCF) to pilot an innovative approach to improving social mobility through Alumni Networks. The fund by UKAID supports charities to achieve sustained poverty reduction and the partnership between Future First Global and CARE was awarded £50,000. Future First …
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Future First Global has launched a partnership with The Private Education Development Network (PEDN) that will see Alumni Networks built at nearly 100 schools across Uganda. PEDN is a non-profit organisation working to empower in and out of school youth with a range of market-led and life skills, such as financial literacy and entrepreneurship. They …
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By Abi Nokes, CEO of Future First Global It’s a new year and over the holiday period the team and I enjoyed taking the opportunity to reflect on a transformative 2018. In this blog we’ll share with you our five big learnings and what we’re looking forward to in the coming year. In 2018 we …
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On Thursday 18th October, Future First Global hosted a workshop and networking event titled “Is Education Enough?” at Tribe Kampala co-working space in Uganda. The event brought together over 30 stakeholders working in the Education and Youth sectors and provoked discussion about the many factors, outside of formal education, that contribute to a young person’s …
Future First Global is set to host a workshop and networking event in Kampala, Uganda entitled “Is Education Enough?”. The event will bring together a range of stakeholders working within the Education and Youth sector in Uganda, providing the opportunity for informative discussions and the chance to meet other colleagues in the sector. The workshop will …
Health Poverty Action, working in partnership with Future First Global, has successfully launched alumni activities at 14 schools across Rwanda. The project has established committees made up of former students in order to tackle absenteeism, lateness, financial disadvantage and other factors holding back students educational progress. Within weeks of the project launch there have already …
Connie Howley interned with Future First Global for two weeks under a Teach First Leadership Development programme. As part of her storytelling project, she interviewed three board members about their roles. If you are interested in becoming a board member, we have a vacancy so please apply here. Approaching the end of my Summer Project …
Future First Global is looking for an experienced Project Manager to lead our team in Dar es Salaam. The role will deliver a portfolio of activities as part of the Lending for Education in Africa Partnership (LEAP) – an exciting initiative being piloted in Tanzania and Kenya for the first time. This is a dynamic …
Caroline Milburn, is the Director and Co-founder of OurSchool – a program helping state secondary schools build thriving alumni communities in Austrailia. Here she shares her experience of their two-year pilot program. Here in Australia there’s been a tradition of private secondary schools developing their alumni communities to benefit students. That tradition exists in the university …
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Following the hugely successful pilot in Rwanda last year, Akazi Kanoze Access is looking to scale up its network-building efforts in the country. The project, delivered in partnership with Future First Global, raised awareness among teachers of the importance of this factor in young people’s development. Both organisations believe that strengthening young people’s networks can …
