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Scholarship for Underprivileged Students
Covering school fees and learning costs for bright, underprivileged students, so financial hardship never stands between a child and their education.
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Education · Mentorship · Opportunity
Every child has a story.
We help them write the first page.
FirstPage Foundation walks alongside children and young people in underserved communities — turning access to education into confidence, skill and a future they get to choose.
5Core programmes
1,000+Young people reached
6Guiding values
About Us
A guide on the path to every child's potential.
FirstPage Foundation is a community-focused organisation committed to improving educational opportunities and empowering children and young people to reach their full potential — regardless of background.
Through educational programmes, scholarships, debates, learning materials, mentorship, skills development and community engagement, we help young people build the knowledge, confidence, character and practical skills they need to succeed — because education goes far beyond the classroom.
Mission
To empower children and young people through quality education, skills development, mentorship, and social impact initiatives that create opportunities for them to learn, grow, and contribute meaningfully to society.
Vision
To build a generation of educated, skilled, confident, and socially responsible young people who can positively transform their communities and contribute to Nigeria's development.
What guides us
Six values behind every programme we run
- 01Education
The foundation for personal and societal development.
- 02Empowerment
Opportunities that let young people discover and maximise their potential.
- 03Integrity
Honesty, transparency, accountability and fairness in everything we do.
- 04Excellence
Encouraging children to pursue excellence in learning and in life.
- 05Inclusiveness
Every child deserves the chance to learn, participate and succeed.
- 06Community Impact
Initiatives that create meaningful, sustainable change locally.
Impact in numbers
Turning opportunity into outcomes
1,000+Children & young people reached
5Core programmes running
40+Partner schools & communities
100+Volunteers & mentors engaged
Figures are illustrative — replace with FirstPage Foundation's verified programme data.
What we run
Programmes that meet young people where they are
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Debate & Public Speaking
Building critical thinking, confidence and the courage to speak up — in class, in community, and beyond.
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Student Recognition & Awards
Celebrating effort and achievement so every child sees that their hard work is seen and valued.
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Support for the Out-of-School Girl Child
Helping girls at risk of dropping out stay in school, by clearing the financial and social barriers standing in their way.
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School & Community Engagement
Partnering with schools and communities so support reaches children where they already learn and live.
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Stories from the children we work alongside
"FirstPage Foundation is truly making a difference in the lives of young people. I have witnessed its commitment to promoting education, academic excellence, and intellectual growth. I am proud to be part of an initiative that is inspiring the next generation to dream bigger and achieve more."
Dr. Hassan Dauda
Lecturer, School of Health and Technology, Lafia
"I lost my father before I could start primary school and thought I might never have the opportunity to go to school. Thanks to the scholarship support from FirstPage Foundation, I am now able to begin my education. I am grateful for this opportunity and hope to achieve my dreams and build a brighter future."
Umar Bin Umar, Age 6
Scholarship for Underprivileged Students
"My mother could not afford to send me to secondary school, and I thought my education might end. Through the scholarship support from FirstPage Foundation, I am now in SS2. I am grateful for this opportunity and hopeful for a brighter future."
Khadija Sani, Age 15
Scholarship for Underprivileged Students
"I was selected as the Best Student of the Year during the FirstPage Foundation's academic programme because of my dedication, hard work, and commitment to my studies. Being recognized for my academic performance has inspired me to work even harder. As a result of my achievement, FirstPage Foundation awarded me a scholarship to support my education through junior secondary school."
Solomon Peniel, Age 10
Student Recognition & Awards
About the Founder
The Story Behind FirstPage Foundation
Mohammed Umar
Founder, FirstPage Foundation
It started with twin girls. Mohammed Umar had spent almost ten years working in Nigeria's non-profit space by the time he met the girls, bright, determined girls on the edge of walking away from school for good, not because they lacked the ability or the will, but because their parents simply could not raise the money for their final-year exam fees. They had come this far. Ten, eleven, twelve years of showing up, of learning, of hoping, and it was about to end over a sum of money that, to many, would seem almost nothing.
That encounter stayed with him. Over the years, Mohammed had sat with people across dozens of underserved communities, in classrooms, in mentorship sessions, in quiet conversations on the margins of community programs, and he had seen the same story repeat itself in different forms. Children with sharp minds and quiet resilience, held back not by what they lacked in talent, but by what they lacked in access. Parents doing everything right and still falling short, not from neglect, but from circumstances stacked against them. And all the while, the number of out-of-school children kept climbing, not because the problem was unsolvable, but because too few people were paying attention.
For Mohammed, those girls' stories became impossible to walk past. If these children could come so close to losing their future over a fee, how many others were quietly disappearing from classrooms across the country, unseen and unrecorded? He thought about the doctors, engineers, teachers, and leaders the world might never know, not because they weren't capable, but because no one had opened the door at the right moment.
That thought became a decision, and that decision became FirstPage Foundation, a place built on a simple belief: that every child deserves to finish the story they started, and that talent should never go unseen simply because opportunity wasn't shared equally. FirstPage Foundation exists to be that open door, one child, one fee, one chance at a time.
"Every child we've worked with has taught us the same thing — talent is everywhere, but opportunity isn't. FirstPage Foundation exists to close that gap, one classroom and one competition at a time."
Help a child turn the page.
Whether you give, volunteer or partner with us — you become part of a child's story.