Five Things Africa’s Youth Need From You to Succeed |By Elizabeth Bintliff, CEO, JA Africa Africa is a young continent. Up to 60% of Africa’s population is aged under 24. In order for there to be continuous development on the continent in the years to come, there is a need to make sure the youth …
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JA Zimbabwe Executive Director, Phil Mlambo, represented JA Africa at the Global Education & Skills Forum, an initiative of the Varkey Foundation held from 12 – 13 March in Dubai. The Forum brought together an estimated 1600 delegates; among them, 28 ministers of Education and 2 deputy presidents among several governments’ Education officials. Dr Fareed Zakaria, Anchor, CNN-GPS, was also present as a plenary …
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I was a member of the team representing Kenya in the 2014 regional mini-enterprise competition, held in Gabon. The journey to Libreville began on the 31st of January 2014 with the team members being elected to the board of directors, with the mandate of steering the company forward. Over the next five months CKOSA Company …
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JA in partnership with General Electric (GE) Africa , embarked on a Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Challenge with a focus on Engineering and its application, on Friday, January 22, 2016. The community service event brought together 120 students from the Unity Cluster of Schools in Accra, to be mentored by senior executives of GE and staff …
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Accra, Ghana -December 29, 2015 – Junior Achievement (JA) Africa, a global youth-focused organization is pleased to announce the appointment of Elizabeth Elango Bintliff as its new chief executive officer. Ms. Bintliff brings more than 17 years of experience in developing countries and emerging economies to her new role having served as …
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Econo-Vative Productions, The Dynamites and Best Start Win Big! Due to the Ebola crisis in 2014, we were unable to hold the 2014 Regional competition last year. Therefore we did things a little differently this year, and hosted for the first time ever, concurrent competitions (2014 & 2015)! The winning student teams for 2014 and 2015 from the …
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In a small room in Libreville, Gabon, three partners, after four weeks of JA ITS TYME training, came together and decided to start a business recycling papers and making gift bags. In the beginning, it was just an idea that Jean-Bernard, Hubert and Laurette were exploring as a hobby, then it became bigger than that. …
Five friends: Odongo Solomon, Oculi Emmanuel, Kasule Nasser, Epoku Emmanuel and Neema Dumo are joint founders of Smajtech Company and attend Uganda’s Seroma Christian High School. The team developed a device to charge a phone while riding a bicycle. “We developed it to help people in rural areas who have no electricity but have phones and …
Apex Limited, an enterprise created through JA’s Company Program, stretched their imagination when they developed Apex Tooth Gel. They started with market research in Rusape, a rural under-served community, which helped them to discover a gap in access to basic health services. While Team Apex knew their community lacked resources, they were not aware of how much …
Student Company receives regional title out of group of 10 finalists Ezulwini, Swaziland – On December 6, Junior Achievement crowned “Refab Kenya” — a team of young entrepreneurs from Nairobi, Kenya — the winners of the 2013 Africa Region JA Company of the Year Competition …
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