The Future Awards kicks off national tour: Winners visit secondary schools and universities across the country
Wednesday, November 21, 2012Omoba
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Denrele Edun (Winner, On Air Personality Television
2012) with students of Aunty Ayo International School
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The Future Awards kicks off national tour… Winners
visit secondary schools and universities across the country. As part of the
post-awards activities for its 7th Season, The Future Awards Central Working
Committee has begun its annual seminars across secondary schools and
universities around the country. The seminars kicked off on Wednesday,November
14, 2012 and will run until January 2013.
“The Future Awards is a year-long season where
there is an unending thread of events devoted to our core values of leadership,
enterprise and active citizenship,” said Chude Jideonwo,
who is executive director of The Future Project. “And beyond the awards, we are
passionate about ensuring that a critical mass of young people engage directly
with the wide range of winners: their stories of inspiration, value-creation
and belief in self and country. As a bottom-top, grassroots-driven idea, beyond
inspiring hope and faith, this is a practical youth-driven platform that
ensures a multiplier-effect of positively engaged young people and a
strengthened Nigerian economy.”
The national tour has already visited Premier
College, Ronik International School, International School Lagos, Aunty Ayo
Secondary School, Mayflower School Ikenne, with more schools on the calendar.
“We are glad that to be chosen as one of the
privileged schools to host the winners of The Future Awards,” said the
principal of Premier College. “And we are grateful to the organisers for giving
our students this eye opening opportunity on improving themselves and adding
value to their communities and Nigeria.”
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Rapper, M.I Abaga interacting with students at The
Future Awards School Seminar
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The seminars will visit Lagos, Ogun, Rivers, Kaduna, Abuja, Benin, Anambra,
amongst others.
With outreaches to Ghana, Ethiopia, and South
Africa, The Future Awards has been described by the World Bank as “The Nobel
Prize for Young Africans” and in six years, has produced 126 winners and over
1,000 nominees. Our mission at The Future Awards is to inspire leadership and
build enterprise. With its umbrella The Future Project, it has been in the
forefront of inspiring a new generation of leaders/leadership and entrepreneurs
for Nigeria, working with the Africa Union, the US Government, the British
Council, the Ministry of Youth Development, the Nigerian Presidency amongst
other organs.
The seminars are hosted by The Future Project, a
social enterprise set up based on a strong, practical commitment to human and
capital development, especially in Nigeria. It is also committed to finding
effective and innovative ways of addressing social issues.
For more information; please visit
www.thefuturenigeria.com. Follow www.facebook.com/TheFutureAwards,
@TFANigeria on Twitter and @TFANigeria on Youtube
SOURCE: Ynaija
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