Determined to develop young leaders to address educational inequity across Nigeria, Teach for Nigeria, a non-profit organization in partnership with NNPC/ SNEPCO and it’s Co-venture Partners (Exxon, TUPNI and Nae) has launch programme called the Incubation Hub.
The programme was initiated as part of Teach For Nigeria’s commitment to providing much-needed support to the alumni of its Fellowship programme to scale their “Be The Change” projects ( a social impact project implemented by Fellows in their second year with the goal of addressing challenges to delivering education in their placement schools and communities). Upon completion of the Fellowship programme, TFN Alumni have scaled their Be The Change projects to fully registered social enterprises.
Folawe Omikunle, chief executive officer, Teach for Nigeria while speaking at the ceremony, said: “The Incubation Hub is aimed at supporting our Alumni to scale their initiatives for tackling educational inequity in Nigeria and after going through a rigorous selection process, 20 Initiatives have been selected as the pioneer cohort of the Incubation Hub. We truly believe that this brings us a step further towards our vision that ‘one day every Nigerian child will have the opportunity to attain an excellent education”
The incubation hub gives a unique opportunity to our alumni community to accelerate growth for their enterprises. Participants will be equipped with the practical knowledge required to build and sustain their social innovations through a 3-month intensive training, access to post-program support and opportunity to pitch for seed funding for their organizations.
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This year, 20 northern-based initiatives focused on promoting access to education and improving the quality of life for children in low communities have been selected as the pioneer cohort of TFN’S Incubation Hub.
Commenting on the launch, Oluwaseun SamsonOlawale, social performance and social investment adviser for SNEPCO said: “Working with Teach For Nigeria to implement the Incubation hub aligns with SNEPCO’S goal to deepen the gains in the classroom by supporting sustainable and adaptable social impact initiatives focused on fighting educational inequity across Nigeria”
The Incubation Hub is structured around Teach for Nigeria’s long-term theory of change strategy to support alumni to continue to work as social innovators and entrepreneurs leading start-up businesses or initiatives focused on proffering solutions to identified problems within the education sector. Subsequently, this programme will be implemented annually by Teach for Nigeria to support alumni initiatives across the nation.
Participants will receive access to training and support resources to develop and scale innovative solutions aimed at addressing educational challenges in Nigeria.
