Junior Achievement Zimbabwe held a Job Shadow Program targeting female students named “Take 10 000 Girls to Work” in Harare, Bulawayo, Mutare, Gweru, Kwekwe and Zvishavane. JA Zimbabwe partnered with several institutions to allow female students (Form 4-6) to shadow their employees for a day. Some of the students shadowed at Nestle Zimbabwe in the …
JA Africa is excited to welcome Charles Olumuyiwa Moyela to its board of directors. Charles Leads IBM’s external communications and reputation risk management using B2B, B2C, B2P tools to galvanize valued stakeholder (Analyst, Media, Public Sector and Industry) relations in 17 sub-Sahara Africa markets across Central and West Africa. He has been with IBM since …
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JA Africa is excited to welcome Mitwa Kaemba Ng’ambi to its Board of Directors. Mitwa Kaemba Ng’ambi is the CEO of Tigo Senegal, and has had vast experience in the Telecommunications industry having worked with mobile operators such as MTN and Airtel, prior to her joining the Millicom Group in 2016. Interested in the diversity of cultures, …
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JA Africa is excited to welcome Amini Kajunju to its Board of Directors. Amini Kajunju is currently the director of Strategic Partnerships at Africa Integras, she works with African universities to help them enhance and expand their network of partnerships with academic, financial, private, non-profit and governmental organizations. Amini was named one of 20 Young …
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To commemorate International Youth Day, Junior Achievement Nigeria developed the Youth Entrepreneurship Essay Competition, in partnership with Access Bank Nigeria. The essay competition was created to provide a platform for the youth to suggest possible solutions that highlight how entrepreneurship can help to solve the youth unemployment crisis in Nigeria. Young people from different …
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Dear Friend, One of the questions we ask ourselves often at JA Africa is how do we know we are making an impact on the lives of young people? JA Africa prides itself as an organization with integrity and transparency. Rigorous practices are put in place to ensure timely and accurate reporting. JA Africa tracks …
In line with our mission to activate youth for the world of work, JA Swaziland organized a Job Shadow program in partnership with 64 companies including PWC, Sedco and Africa Chicks to prepare young people for the world of work. Students were matched with different companies (based on their career interests) to explore different industries …
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Thabo Qoako (27) was born in Senekal in the Free State and travelled to Johannesburg in 1999 where he completed primary and secondary school. Through his good academic track record, Thabo had been elected to join a JA South Africa programme in 2006. All the learnings and skills from the programme set a solid foundation …
More than 160 out-of-school, unemployed or self-employed young women between the ages of 18 and 35 graduated from the JA South Africa Youth Enterprise Development Programme 2017. This Mastercard-funded initiative empowers women to pursue entrepreneurial ventures of their own. Over the 20-week programme, the women participated in theoretical and practical sessions focused on business theory, …
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By Farai Peter Munjoma On the 12th of August 2017, I travelled to Denmark with two other JA Africa Alumni, Rudo Muzhando from JA Zimbabwe and Wise Banda from JA Zambia, for the inaugural UNLEASH Innovation Lab. We joined 999 other young people from across the world, to work towards crafting solutions for the Sustainable …
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