Q: What motivated you to join Junior Achievement? PM: It was the opportunity to work with young people. Having spent time working with youth with HIV/AIDS, and in livelihoods development I saw that entrepreneurship development was a gap in the field. My first job after college was with Streets Ahead, an organization that rehabilitated street …
By Tapiwa Marume The Regional Company of the Year competition which was hosted by Junior Achievement Zimbabwe (JAZ) in collaboration with Junior Achievement Africa (JA Africa) starting from the 7th ended on a celebratory note at an awards dinner at the Rainbow Towers Hotel on Friday the 9th of December. The event was attended by …
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Adedayo Fashanu participated in the JA company program whilst in Cayley College in Lagos State, Nigeria in the year 2005-2006. Junior Achievement came to her school and her year group was the first set to experience the JA Company Program. Together with her peers, they created an Enterprise and their business was fashioned around jewelry …
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JA Africa with Junior Achievement Zimbabwe Accra, Ghana …
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By Junior Achievement Swaziland One of the most important elements to incorporate in the running of programs is the monitoring and evaluating (M&E) process. This is where during the running of the programs, we monitor the progress made and concurrently measure the impact made through the implementation of these programs. At JA Swaziland, we have two …
Junior Achievement (JA) Africa is proud to receive the 2016 Future Partner Prize for the Pan African Awards for #Entrepreneurship in Education. The award, granted by the UK-based organization Teach a Man to Fish, whose mission is to end youth unemployment and poverty by supporting schools to set up profitable and #educational school businesses. The …
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Globally, girls perform academically at par with boys and often even out-perform them in school. But when it comes to leadership during their careers women fall behind. This phenomenon is manifested consistently in many parts of the world, and especially in Africa where the C-suites are often devoid of female leaders. In fact, a study …
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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 87 institutions to allow 2500 female students (Form 4-6) to shadow their employees for a day. Apart from serving as mentorship, role modelling, career guidance …
By Elizabeth Bintliff, CEO, JA Africa This week, Junior Achievement Africa’s program in Zimbabwe is hosting an ambitious new program called ‘Take 10,000 Girls to Work.’ It is a bold program which aims to address some of the gaps that girls face transitioning from school to the world of work, especially the preconceptions they have …
