Former students are inspiring and empowering current students to work harder at school in Kenya
Nairobi, Kenya 5 March 2015 – A new report launched today by Future First Global shows the transformative impact alumni are having in the employment potential for secondary school students in Nairobi. The report ‘An Alumni Community for Every School: Learning from Kenya pilot programmes’ examines a two year pilot programme across fifteen schools in Nairobi. The programme has been piloting Future First’s school based alumni model which aims to improve school to work transition by engaging former students as careers advisers, mentors, providers of work placements and as donors. While improvements in access to education has meant young people …
Ghanaian former students ready to give back to schools, research shows
Nearly two-thirds of former students in Ghana would be prepared to support students at their old school, new research and polling has shown. Wednesday 10 December – On the United Nations’ (UN) International Human Rights Day, international charity Future First Global, which commissioned the research, is calling on schools and alumni to work together to help young Ghanaians realize their rights to education and to work. Polling by Ipsos MORI of over 1,000 Ghanaian adults nationwide revealed that around 60 per cent of adults were will to give back to their old school, but that just one per cent had …
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