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Why Leadership?

Leadership Education Can Change Everything

Africa has a reputation for producing some of the worst quality of leaders in the world. Millions of youths in public secondary schools in Nigeria lack access to leadership education and skills training, leaving them unaware of their leadership potential and waiting for answers.
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The FAME Foundation Report

While Nigeria’s enrollment figures in secondary education have been increasing, the quality of learning remains extremely low.
Did You Know?

In 2021, the total number of pupils enrolled in secondary education in Nigeria stood at 13,947,585. (World Bank Report)

The FAME Foundation Report

A staggering 9 out of 10 students in Public Senior Secondary Schools in Nigeria do not view themselves as leaders or individuals capable of making an impact. This alarming statistic highlights a significant gap in self-perception and leadership potential among our youth.
SEE WHAT STUDENTS SAY WHEN WE FIRST MEET THEM

"I feel unsure about who I am and my purpose in life. I can't ask my teachers these questions because I doubt they know their own identity or purpose."

The FAME Foundation Report

A alarming 9 out of 10 students don’t feel they have the necessary knowledge and skills to advance to further education or the workforce. Leaving them unprepared for the challenges of further education and the workforce.
SEE WHAT STUDENTS SAY WHEN WE FIRST MEET THEM

"When I enter into politics, I will steal and enrich myself and my family."

The FAME Foundation Report

Their situation illustrates a deeply flawed education system that obstructs secondary school students from acquiring essential value-based and skill-based education, ultimately depriving them of the opportunity to reach their full potential.
DID YOU KNOW?

Secondary education is the highest educational level attained by over 60% of Nigerian youth. (Afrobarometer)

Leadership and Skills Education changes everything!

It is capable of shaping mindset, behavior, attitude and culture in such a manner that transforms lives.
Here are some of the benefits for the next generation of leaders.

Mindset Reorientation

Mindset Reorientation

90% of secondary school students are teenagers under 18 years old who don’t see themselves as leaders or people with influence. Access to leadership education and skills training can reduce risky behaviour and increase self-leadership and personal responsibility. Encourage pro-social attitudes and transform thousands of lives every year in our secondary schools.

Strong Foundation

Strong Foundation

Students are provided with a strong foundation of soft and transferable skills that ultimately allow youth to sustain momentum and adapt to ever-changing circumstances. It equips these young people with the skills and tools to solve problems and build the futures they envision.

Education

Education

Leadership education helps students take responsibility for their future and keeps students in school, especially girls. Our innovative and transformative curriculum encourages them to aim high and reach their potential. They experience a significant boost in their confidence, experience improvement in their academics and complete their secondary school education. They enrol for and complete higher education studies, and earn higher cumulative grade point averages.

Gender Equity

Gender Equity

It helps girls and boys engage together with a curriculum that challenges gender preconceptions around leadership. It gives them all the tools to succeed and improves education for everyone. Not just a particular gender.

Improved Value System

Improved Value System

When a student gets access to leadership education, they have a better understanding of their identity, purpose and values. It changes the life of the student, and the student now has greater clarity of her/his values and purpose.

Role Models

Role Models

Students begin to live purposefully and become examples. They consciously live as positive influencers and changemakers in their schools and communities. They begin to change things and lead with vision and compassion.

Active Citizens

Active Citizens

Students get a better understanding of their office as citizens and the SDGs, and which of the goals they want to take action on. It helps them recognize they have opportunities to lead and be the change, starting with leading themselves. They register to vote, do not sell their votes and vote based on their new-found values during elections.

Leadership Curriculum

Leadership Curriculum

Leadership and work readiness focused education becomes part and parcel of the upbringing of every student in a public secondary school. Students receive high-quality education that prepares youth early to build character, solve problems creatively and meet the evolving demands of the labor market and VUCA (Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity) world.