The Fashioned and Made for Excellence Foundation (The FAME Foundation), a youth development-focused education nonprofit dedicated to developing the kind of leaders it wishes Nigeria has; starting from secondary schools, has completed its much-anticipated transformational FAME Lead Project 2024 held across 20 secondary schools in Ibadan.
During the 10-week project, newly selected prefects across the 20 beneficiary schools were equipped with leadership and management skills.
The Founder and Executive director of The FAME Foundation, Mr. Raphael Stephen, declared that “the FAME Lead Project bears testament to the organization’s continued commitment to developing 1,000,000 leaders through our secondary schools by 2030. At FAME, we recognize everything rises and falls on leadership, and we believe that the FAME Lead Project is a strategic part of that journey, together we have equipped nearly 3,000 prefects with leadership values and management skills in nearly a decade across Nigeria.”
The beneficiary schools of The FAME Lead Project 2024 include Queens School Ibadan, Government College Ibadan, Anwar-Ul-Islam Grammar School, Eleyele Secondary School, Onireke High School, St Anne’s School 1 Senior, People’s Girls’ Grammar School, Monarch Model College, St Teresa’s College, Bashorun High School, Wesley College of Science, St Annes School 2, Ibadan Grammar School, Yejide Girls Grammar School, St Louis Grammar School, Bishop Philips School 1, Bishop Philips School 2, Eleyele High School, The Vale College, Community High School, Adamasigba.
Through a blend of hands-on learning activities and a “Prefect Challenge,” the transformational training aimed to foster leadership abilities and nurture self-leadership, confidence, compassion, empathy, emotional intelligence, teamwork, collaboration, creativity, critical thinking, visioning, and effective communication.
Speaking on her experience, Aboluwade Oladele, Project Coordinator (Ibadan), The FAME Foundation said, “Learning leadership while still in secondary school is essential for creating the Nigeria we want. This project allows us to prepare newly selected prefects for their leadership roles next academic year and help the students reach their full potential.
“By providing them with the necessary tools, resources and mentorship, we aim to enable them to become effective leaders and changemakers within their schools and communities.”
Since 2018, the FAME Foundation has educated and trained thousands of prefects locally, providing values-based content and best practices, aiming to transform their lives and the lives of those around them.
At the end of the first half of the year, the FAME Foundation has directly equipped and invested in over 1,000 aspiring leaders across secondary schools in Ibadan through the Ibadan Head Girl Conference and the FAME Lead Project, which has indirectly impacted nearly 20,000 aspiring leaders.
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