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JA Gabon receives EU funding to integrate youth into Agriculture and Hydrocarbon fields

JA Gabon has received a grant from the EU to fund the integration of youth into agriculture & hydrocarbons through employment or self-employment. JA Gabon will work with its partners to create two new business incubators in Port-Gentil Public High School & Nyonda Makita Technical High School in Mouila, supplementing the national Incubator in the …

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JA Africa Alumni join UNLEASH to create Sustainable Development Solutions

JA Africa Alumni, Farai Munjoma, Rudo Mazhandu, both from JA Zimbabwe, and Wise Banda of JA Zambia have been selected to attend the 2017 Unleash Lab, a global innovation lab for sustainable development, which hopes to boost the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) with a nine-day event of a thousand unique people creating solutions to make …

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JA Nigeria and Access Bank Launch Youth Entrepreneurship Essay Competition

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 parts …

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One Thing Young People Should be Committing to for International Youth Day

By Elizabeth Elango Bintliff, CEO,  JA Africa If I can advise young people, in Africa or elsewhere in the world, to do one thing this International Youth Day as an investment in themselves it would be this: get a mentor! What’s a mentor, you ask? A mentor is an experienced and trusted advisor. What is …

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Meet the JA Nigeria Alum behind #AsoEbiBella

Nkechi ‘Ink’ Eze is the founder of AsoEbiBella, a platform to promote traditional styles. In her teens, she won several national and school awards and honours including Best Participating Student at Junior Achievement Nigeria LEAD Camp and was appointed Head Girl of her secondary school. In that same year, she earned a prestigious place at International Baccalaureate School United World …

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JA Africa’s Marketing Intern, Jamila Farouk speaks at 2017 Africa Open Data Conference

Jamila Farouk, intern at JA Africa and aspiring Data Scientist recently attended the Africa Open Data Conference (AODC), 2017 in Accra from the 17th to 21st of July. The AODC is a conference that features participants and speakers expert in their field and leading global conversation and action in open data for growth and prosperity. …

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How the JA Company Program Shaped My View of Entrepreneurship

JA Alum, Neliswa Bhembe is a student in Swaziland. Her JA Company, Hawk Arts, won the Africa Company of the Year competition in 2016. The Company of the Year is an annual competition which brings together students across Africa who have completed training in entrepreneurship education through JA’s Company Program. Hawk Arts an exclusive arts …

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JA Gabon & Ministry of Small & Medium Scaled Enterprises take measures to boost Gabonese Economy

Libreville, 27 July 2017 – JA Gabon has been tasked with the mandate to assist the Ministry of Small and Medium Scaled Enterprises (SMEs), in charge of national entrepreneurship, in the creation of incubators in the different sectors of the economic recovery plan.    In order to increase the employability of young people, the Minister …

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Applications OPEN for the African Leadership Academy Class of 2018

African Leadership Academy has now commenced the application season for the ALA Class of 2018 (Our two-year Diploma Program). As you might already know, we are a pan-African leadership development institution, working with several top institutions and organizations across the continent to identify, develop and connect the next generation of African leaders. Over the past ten years, …

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