FAME is reimagining secondary education
We have positively impacted the lives of over 40,000 youths through your investments.
The Problem
With nearly a decade of experience, we have identified five areas in which Nigeria and the African Continent, suffer and which we try to tackle through our work.
Identity and Quality of Learning Crisis
Students in secondary schools struggle with an identity crisis. While enrollment in secondary education has significantly increased, being in school isn’t the same thing as learning what they need to thrive in an increasingly demanding and uncertain job world.
Cultural Approach to Leadership
Leadership is mostly seen as occupying a position.
Mass Ignorance of the Citizens
Most citizens can’t recognize or distinguish between bad, good, better, and the best leaders.
Absence of Leadership Education in the Secondary School Curriculum
Mass education is absent in leadership and skills-based learning. Most secondary school students complete their education without ever receiving any form of leadership education or skills training. These factors lead to a dearth of leadership and significant unfulfilled impact potential amongst youth and in society as a whole.
Absence of Passionate, and Well-Motivated Quality Teachers
There is quite a large number of teachers who feel disengaged from a profession that once so inspired them due to the lack of recognition of their existing efforts and opportunities to learn innovative techniques to inspire and educate their students. The absence of transformative teachers further exacerbates the continent’s learning crisis.
Our Solutions
FAME partners with governments, ministries of education, private sector and local communities to tackle this challenge.
Our Theory of Change
We recognize that leadership and skills-based learning are as essential to a youth’s success as literacy. We aim for five main outcomes for our beneficiaries.
Consciousness and Recognition
They are more conscious of their influence and the leaders within them, greet their peers with positivity and respect, take responsibility, and are able to recognize good leadership when they see one.
Increased Leadership Skills
They have increased leadership skills, soft and hard skills, emotional stability, healthy personal identity, assertiveness, improved positive behavior, improved academic performance, and improved workforce readiness.
Innovation and Problem Solving
They exhibit compassion, creativity, and critical thinking, able to solve problems and communicate solutions effectively.
Changemaking and Active Citizenship
They are more tolerant, see themselves as drivers of change, become changemakers and active citizens.
Role Models Paying It Forward
They pay it forward by volunteering, starting initiatives, positively influencing and raising more young leaders in their communities.
What Makes FAME Different
Every $5 invested in leadership education and skills training can unlock significant long-term growth in their skills, character, and opportunities.
Cost Effective
Cost Effective
FAME reaches a large number of students every year at a low cost by delivering our model using existing school infrastructures and engaging passionate youths and teachers as facilitators. We leverage technology to cost-effectively train, manage, and monitor our programmes. We have mastered how to create impact while keeping costs remarkably low.
Visual Proof
Visual Proof
We track every gift you give by documenting every programme or project with photos and videos. You can find all of our impact stories and reports on our social media pages. We also give you access to our reporting. To date, no partner has regretted collaborating with FAME.
Designed to Scale
Designed to Scale
Our model is designed to scale: built on best scaling practices and continual self evaluation. We are now one of the largest youth skills providers in Nigeria. FAME’s
long-term vision is to integrate core components of our curriculum into the State and National curricula, which will measurably impact millions of students across Nigeria.
Consistent Evaluation
Consistent Evaluation
We prioritize monitoring & evaluation, follow-up, and give our alumni opportunities to
pay it forward through volunteering. We’re committed to doing what works: utilizing
evidence to develop and improve our model, continuously capturing efficacy data,
processing it quickly, and integrating lessons learned to optimize quality, and cost to
enable us to serve our beneficiaries more effectively.
80% Goes To The Field
80% Goes To The Field
We prioritize the delivery of our programmes and the transformation of our
participants. Our Board Members, and volunteers support our operating costs so
80% of your gift can fund leadership education. It’s not always easy, but it’s an
approach we believe in deeply.
Meaningful Youth Engagement
Meaningful Youth Engagement
We give youths most affected by the leadership and learning crisis in Nigeria an opportunity to become Changemakers and develop skills that are valuable in every sector through volunteering for our programmes. 90% of youths who serve with us get gainfully employed after serving as facilitators in our leadership programmes yearly.
FAME Transformation Approach
We deliver a fun, interactive and experiential learning experience that gives youths in public secondary schools the foundation for a lifetime of leading positive change.
CONNECT
We always set aside our own agenda and focus on the needs and interests of our beneficiaries.
ASSESS
We seek to understand their perspective, thoughts, and potential through our mindset-check tools.
ENGAGE
We give them opportunities to express themselves, without excessive judgment in a positive, supportive environment.
REORIENT
We help them unlearn and relearn.
TRAIN
We begin the process of teaching them the values, skills, behaviors, and habits they need to succed at school and in life.
EQUIP
They develop essential values and life skills, and become future ready.
SET
We set high expectations for them and challenge them to rise up to meet them.
GIVE
We empower them and give them support through the challenges that might arise.
LEAD
They begin to lead with consciousness, intentionality and purpose.
MENTOR
We keep providing ongoing guidance, support, and opportunities to build skills, knowledge, and networks.
OUR STRATEGIC PRIORITIES
Scale With FAME
FAME’s strategic priorities are focused on leadership, access to skills-based education, youth development, teacher development, gender equity, and workforce development. FAME’s in-school model was launched in 50 schools in 2019 in Ibadan, and since then, we have worked to build an innovative, sustainable, scalable, and cost-effective solution. In 2021-2022, we piloted our in-school model in Oyo, Iseyin, Igbeti, Osogbo, and Jigawa State, Nigeria, and scaled to over 100 schools in Nigeria to reach 12,000 youth directly and 24,000 youth more broadly. In 2024, we also continued to quality test our in-school model through rigorous monitoring and evaluation, confirming that we can drive costs down and make adjustments where necessary to ensure that youth continue to receive the most impactful, cost-effective intervention possible. We’ve measurably impacted over 40,000 youth to date. Our ultimate goal is to make this practical, skills-based model part of the state and national education systems.