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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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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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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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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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 …
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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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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