Future Begins Now

Personal Development Course 2019 is about to kick off and we are very excited to announce the schools that have been chosen in the coming days. We will reach 500 students this time in 20 schools in Ibadan. Our mentors are currently being selected and trained. Personal Development Course is a course organized by Future Begins Now where secondary school students are given mentors that can stir up academic excellence in them. The training takes 6 months with 12 contacts. The training was able to reach 125 students in the maiden edition in 5 schools, but is being scaled to reach 500 students. The mentors are selected from higher institutions and graduates who have inspiring stories and a heart for the younger ones and they will take the students through a carefully devised curriculum that contains self awareness, social awareness, career development, leadership skills and communication skills as modules. The modules are structured in the Forbes pattern for trainings which ...

According to Newton, if you don’t apply an external force to an object, it will remain on the same spot or maintain its course. Following the trends of happenings in the secondary schools, we have found out that students do not have the pictures that inspire academic excellence before them. They are constantly faced with people who have gone the wrong way and picture education to them as not so important. That trend has produced a lot of young minds who are under-utilizing their potentials on the streets. Thuggery has become the big thing in town. Cultism is not out of the game as Olu Igbo and Itu have become well established gangs in the secondary schools. Students now have parents who are proud of being garage boys. Future Begins Now is not going to sit back and watch this trend continue. Something will be done about it and that is why we are providing a different picture for these students. We want them to see that it is still possible to become academically excellent and g...