February 20, 2019 – Junior Achievement Africa is pleased to announce the winners of its 2018 Out of School Youth (OOSY) Competition. The winners are: First place: Shasha Network, Zimbabwe – a student-driven online based digital learning and collaboration platform that provides Zimbabwean high school students access to advanced and ordinary level lecture notes and …
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Accra, Ghana,November 29,2018 – JA (Junior Achievement) Ghana is pleased to announce that it will be hosting the Regional Company of the Year Competition 2018, in collaboration with JA Africa. The event will take place from 5-7 December 2018 in Accra, Ghana. The theme for this year’s event is “Tech the Future by Storm” and the …
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Raelyn Christopher Tunks, a 28 year-young graduate who studied Business Administration in 2014 is a beneficiary of Junior Achievement Zimbabwe (JAZ) and the Zimbabwe Works project in Bulawayo. After spending 2 years looking for work with no success, the internship program was a stepping stone to his career. “As a graduate I was not ready …
By Elizabeth Bintliff, CEO, JA Africa A few weeks ago on a flight back to Accra from Nairobi I struck up a conversation with the young man seated next to me. He was from Namibia. He had been on a business trip in Kenya, his first time in East Africa. He was going on to …
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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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 …
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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