Teach For Nigeria

Millions of children in Nigeria lack access to an excellent education that will give them a successful future. This results in more and more people continuing to join the cycle of poverty, making it increasingly difficult for our nation to live up to its vision of a better future. Teach For Nigeria exists to change this narrative. We do this by developing a movement of leaders across the nation who are committed to putting an end to educational inequity. We recruit Nigerias most promising future leaders from varied disciplines to teach in Nigerias underserved schools in low-income communities through a highly selective, two-year Fellowship. The Fellowship is a transformational leadership program that equips Fellows with transferable leadership skills to effect change beyond the classrooms in the communities we serve. After the Fellowship, alumni of Teach For Nigeria build on their classroom teaching experience to drive long-term systemic changes in the educational sector in Nigeri...