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Future First Global will be hosting our first panel discussions, one on May 17th and one on May 18th, from 6-8pm in Central London. The two evenings will bring together a select group of people from education and international development to discuss the role alumni can play in education and also in organizations. Both events will be taking …

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Future First Global is seeking a Managing Director to help grow the organisation. Considerable travel may be involved and we are seeking someone with strong entrepreneurial abilities to help think through strategy and deliver results for the organisation. We are looking for someone who can get deals through with high level government officials, NGO partners and …

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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 …

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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 …

Back to School Campaign: Reflections from Ghana Read More »

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 …

Remember what it was like to be 16 years old? Read More »

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 …

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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 …

Advice to My 16-Year-Old Self: Rishi Kaashyap Read More »

  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 …

Back to School Campaign: Day 2 + 3 Read More »

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 …

Back to School Week: My Journey With CARE Singapore Read More »

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. …

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