Uganda’s John Samuel Ewotu, CEO of Wot Art, a company started through the Junior Achievement Company Program, traveled to Accra, Ghana to receive the grand prize on behalf of his company. The prize was the 2019 Out of School Company of the Year Grand Prize as well as the Facebook Digital Media Marketing Award, which …
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Accra, Ghana – December 12th, 2019: Junior Achievement (JA) Africa is pleased to announce Active Innovators from Zambia has won the Delta Air Lines Social Impact Award at the 2019 Company of the Year finals. The competition, hosted for the second successive year in Ghana, brought together 44 young entrepreneurs from Botswana, Eswatini, Gabon, Ghana, …
Accra, Ghana – December 10th, 2019: Forty four high school students from 11 countries in Africa converged in Accra last week for Junior Achievement (JA) Africa’s 2019 Company of the Year competition. The competition brought together young entrepreneurs from Botswana, Eswatini (Swaziland), Gabon, Ghana, Kenya, Mauritius, Nigeria, South Africa, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Also in …
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Friends, funders, Members of the Board and other well-wishers came together at the Azalai Hotel in Abidjan, Ivory Coast on 20 November 2019 to participate in the launch of Junior Achievement Cote d’Ivoire. The event, which signaled the beginning of JA’s programs in the country, featured speeches and words of support from a number of …
Accra, Ghana – Junior Achievement (JA) Africa is proud to announce that the 2019 Regional Company of the Year (COY) Competition will return to Accra, Ghana. The competition will bring together Company Program students from the 15 African countries where JA works in Africa. The event will take place from 4-6 December 2019 at the …
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Junior Achievement (JA) Africa and Citi Foundation have renewed their partnership to deliver the ‘Pathways to Progress” initiative. Pathways to Progress, announced in 2017, is Citi’s response to the global challenge of unemployment. Citi commits, by 2020, to invest an additional $100 million to impact the lives of 500,000 youth globally. Citi will also engage at …
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JA Africa and Facebook are proud to launch the Out of School Youth Awards for the 2019 Company of the Year Competition. The JA Africa Company of the Year (COY) competition is JA Africa’s flagship event to celebrate the entrepreneurial achievements of young people from across Africa, who have completed JA’s entrepreneurship education programs. Through …
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Junior Achievement Nigeria celebrated 20 years of existence on 4th October with a celebration that included a Youth Leadership Conference, an awards luncheon, and a fundraising dinner at the Landmark Centre in Victoria Islands, Lagos. The theme for the celebration was “20 Years of Impact, Partnering for Growth”. The theme emphasized the need for partnerships that …
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Junior Achievement (JA) Zimbabwe celebrated 20 years of inspiring young Zimbabweans for economic success on 4th October 2019. The event was held at Holiday Inn in Harare under the theme “Success, Inspiration and Enterprise Education”. Attending the event were government officials, members of JA Zimbabwe’s board of directors, sponsors, partners, current and past employees, alumni …
JA Africa is honored to be a 2019 recipient of the UN King Hamad Prize for Youth Enablers in Achievement of the SDGs. This Global award comes as an expression of the firm faith His Majesty King Hamad Bin Isa Al Khalifa, King of Bahrain has in young people’s potential to lead their countries and …
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