Meet the newest members of our hive!
In this interview, we interview Madeleine and Prerna, who have both recently joined the inHive team and will be working with some of our amazing partners across the world. inhive: First up, can you tell us a bit about you? Prerna: I was born and brought up in Berlin and moved to London in 2007 after a short, one year stint in Hong Kong. I studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Oxford and began my career in Economic consultancy. A few years in, I decided that I wanted to shift my focus on development and social impact, and went on …
Schools are not just a tool for economic growth – they should help young people thrive
Future First Global Project Lead, Ján Michalko, looks at the importance of so-called ‘soft skills’ for young people as they enter the jobs market and how schools should do more to foster them. Country leaders want their people to be efficient and effective workers. They need people to be trained to drive economic growth and excel in the fourth industrial revolution that we are in. And so as a result, our education assessments zoom in on young people’s technical skills and we rank schools according to this specific economic worldview. But what often falls to the side-lines are our connections; …
South African Youth Organisations Establish Community of Practice
First Global has helped establish a community of practice on alumni engagement in South Africa. Cyril Ramaphosa Foundation hosted a workshop for organisations that provide scholarships for young South Africans and run programmes supporting their education, entrepreneurship and employment. Participating organisations recognised that despite the support of their programming, young people, especially those who are marginalized by their economic status and race, still face immense challenges after they graduate. So the question of how to continue support for programme alumni in a sustainable and impactful way became one of the key issues discussed at the meeting. Future First Global facilitators, …
UKAID Award for social mobility pilot in Pakistan
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 Global are experts in building strong youth-centred networks and the CARE Foundation run a network of over 800 schools in Pakistan. Together they will pilot alumni communities at 100 schools in the country, aiming to improve social mobility by increasing young people’s access to strong …
Nearly 100 schools in Uganda to establish Alumni Networks in partnership with PEDN
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 have a presence in 17 districts in Uganda and work with a network of 300 primary and secondary schools. The new partnership with Future First Global will see Alumni Networks initially established at 92 schools across all 17 districts. With PEDN potentially rolling the project …
Five things we learnt in 2018…and a sneak preview of 2019
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 worked with eight brilliant partners in nine countries across Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. We supported them to build strong networks and alumni communities that will benefit an estimated 120,000 young people over the next two years. By working across so many different contexts, we …
Is Education Enough?: The Wrap-Up
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 ability to achieve their potential. One of the participants was MasterCard Foundation Scholar, Joshua Eyaru, and below he provides his perspective on the session. I have committed myself to working with young people from schools in rural communities. Having gone to a rural school myself, …
Future First Global to host event in Kampala
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 look at some of the “outside-of-the-classroom” factors that affect a young person’s life chances and will last approximately an hour before the informal networking begins. The event will be hosted on Thursday 18th October from 4.15pm at Tribe Kampala, near Acacia Mall, Kampala and will …
Good Start: Busy Launch with HPA
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 been over 20 village meetings, as well as various mentoring talks, house visits and clubs established. Impressively, financial commitments have already been made to the benefit of over 80 pupils and nearly 20 young people have been encouraged to return to school. In the coming …
Meet The Trustees – and maybe become one?
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 at Future First Global, I have learnt more about the charity sector in the last two weeks than the previous 22 years! As a participant on Teach First’s Leadership Development Programme, I thought I was knowledgeable when it came to the problems and solutions of …
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