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Dakar (Senegal), July 11, 2023 – Junior Achievement Africa (JA Africa) and Boeing are expanding their partnership to introduce the Boeing Sustainability Program in Senegal. This new joint effort aims to empower and upskill 500 young Senegalese individuals aged 15-25, with a special emphasis on promoting gender equity by targeting a 50% female participation rate. […]

Accra, 6th July 2023: Nigeria’s Simi Nwogugu, CEO of Junior Achievement (JA) Africa, has today been named the winner of this year’s Africa Education Medal, Africa’s most prestigious education accolade which was founded last year by T4 Education and HP in collaboration with Microsoft.  The Africa Education Medal was founded to recognize the tireless work

JA Eswatini recently concluded its highly successful Youth Business Shower Week, empowering young entrepreneurs and providing them with access to seed capital for their businesses. The program, which aimed to support and nurture the entrepreneurial spirit among the youth, witnessed remarkable participation and resulted in significant investments in youth-led enterprises. Throughout the week-long event, a

Delta Air Lines, in collaboration with JA Africa, recently organized and successfully held Innovation Camps for over 120 students in Ghana and Senegal. The one-day business simulation workshop, known as the Delta Innovation Camp, aimed to foster creativity, critical thinking, teamwork, and problem-solving skills among the participants. The Delta Innovation Camp provided an opportunity for

As part of its effort to further prepare young people for the future and help them solve some of the biggest challenges in their communities and in the world, Junior Achievement Nigeria (JAN) has partnered with KPMG Nigeria to implement yet another cycle of the JA Career Success Program. The JA Career Success program is a 7-week program that

JA Africa, one of Africa’s largest and most-impactful youth-serving NGOs, with support from the Project Management Institute Educational Foundation (PMIEF), is introducing the JA Company Program to Rwanda. JA Company Program empowers high school students to fill a need or solve a problem in their community and teaches them practical skills required to conceptualize, capitalize,

Delta Air Lines Innovation Camp, a one-day business simulation workshop to encourage creativity and problem solving among students, is scheduled to take place in Ghana on June 1st, 2023. The initiative, aims to provide students with a unique opportunity to display their ingenuity, critical thinking and problem-solving skills in an experiential learning environment using real-life

Meet the ten newly appointed JA Africa alumni leaders! These ten alumni will attend the first-ever Alumni Leaders Academy in Kampala, Uganda, from June 29–July 3, and then go on to lead the JA alumni network in their countries through July 2024. The JA Alumni Leaders Academy is a three-day intensive boot camp aimed at

Founded by T4 Education and HP in collaboration with Microsoft, the Africa Education Medal is Africa’s most prestigious education accolade. Nigeria’s Simi Nwogugu, CEO of JA Africa, has been named as a Top 10 finalist for the Africa Education Medal 2023. Founded last year by T4 Education and HP in collaboration with Microsoft, the Africa

Geofrey Wakhakunyu is a seasoned social worker, educationalist and experienced person in vast areas of Business/institutional Administration and management. He has worked with JA for 12 years, starting in 2011 as an in school volunteer teacher. Read this exciting conversation with Geofrey and be inspired by his dedication to youth empowerment in Uganda. What inspired