The Fashioned and Made for Excellence Foundation (The FAME Foundation) has successfully concluded its groundbreaking FAME Lead Project 2024.
This initiative, which spanned 10 weeks and involved 20 secondary schools in Ibadan, equipped 624 newly selected prefects with essential leadership and management skills.
The FAME Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to youth development and education, is committed to nurturing the leaders Nigeria needs, starting from secondary schools.
The FAME Lead Project 2024 is a testament to this commitment, as highlighted by the Founder and Executive Director of The FAME Foundation, Mr. Raphael Stephen.
“The FAME Lead Project is a strategic part of our journey to develop 1,000,000 leaders through our secondary schools by 2030. We recognize that everything rises and falls on leadership, and we believe that the FAME Lead Project plays a crucial role in this mission,” stated Stephen. Over nearly a decade, the organization has equipped close to 3,000 prefects across Nigeria with leadership values and management skills.
The list of beneficiary schools includes prestigious institutions such as Queens School Ibadan, Government College Ibadan, Anwar-Ul-Islam Grammar School, and several others. Through a mix of hands-on learning activities and a “Prefect Challenge,” the program aimed to foster leadership abilities and nurture qualities like self-leadership, confidence, compassion, empathy, emotional intelligence, teamwork, collaboration, creativity, critical thinking, visioning, and effective communication.
Aboluwade Oladele, Project Coordinator (Ibadan) for The FAME Foundation, emphasized the importance of early leadership education.
“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,” she said.
“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,” Oladele added.
Since its inception in 2018, The FAME Foundation has educated and trained thousands of prefects locally, offering values-based content and best practices aimed at transforming their lives and the lives of those around them. By the end of the first half of this year, the organization has directly equipped and invested in over 1,000 aspiring leaders across secondary schools in Ibadan through initiatives like the Ibadan Head Girl Conference and the FAME Lead Project, indirectly impacting nearly 20,000 aspiring leaders.
