Why Should I Be Concerned With What Takes Place In My Community?

Primary School (8-11 years)

The JA Our Community Action explores the interdependent roles of workers in a community, types of work in the community, responsibility of each community member and how communities work. It is a series of five role playing activities with the average time for each activity of between 40 minutes to an hour. Children recognize the importance of work to a community and how each work contributes to the betterment of their communities, learn to save, understand money and how money moves, identify potential careers and appreciate the role of government. This is a basic program that inspires individual responsibility and introduces the notions of entrepreneurship, financial literacy and work readiness at a tender age.

The JA volunteer displays a poster of a typical community and the students meet some of the people who live and work there. It is through hands -on activities, that the students are introduced to financial education, learn about workers, the work they perform, why workers are paid, what taxes are and how they are used, and where to save money. Our Community examines responsibilities and the economic opportunities available within a community.

Financial Education By Practice

Secondary School (14-19 years)

With the support and guidance of volunteer consultants from the local business community, the JA Company Program provides economic education for secondary school students. The students organize and operate an actual business enterprise, students not only learn how business function, they also learn about the structure of a free enterprise system and the benefits it provides. JA Company Program helps young people appreciate and better understand the role of business in society. The experience enhances students' classroom curriculum. Participants use innovative thinking to learn business skills that support positive attitudes as they explore and enhance their career aspirations. Through a variety of hands-on activities and technological supplements designed to support different learning styles, students develop a better understanding of the relationship between what they learn at school and real life and also appreciate the need to participate as responsible citizens in a community/economy. Twelve structured activities spanning over a period of 5-6 months are required for this program.

Participants in this program develop various skills; -business idea development, identifying target markets, assembling products, analyzing and interpreting information, Brainstorming, teamwork, critical reading, gathering and organizing information, Group and self-assessment, Interpreting production inventory, Oral and written communication, Making observations, Product analysis, Public speaking, Research, record keeping and financial reporting, costing , Selling, etc

Love Your Job? Share It With A Child

Secondary School (15-19 Years)

Would you rather tell children about your workplace or show them? We introduce students to careers through one-day, on-onsite orientations. It's an authentic work-world experience for the students -enhanced with classroom preparatory and follow-up activities. JA Jobs Shadow takes students into the workplace to learn about careers.

Students are introduced to potential careers through on-site, real workplace orientations. Students who would have undergone the JA Company Program are placed at real work places to experience and compare the actual work environment in a well established organization or business with the experience they underwent during their time in a JA student company. The key learning objectives of the program include developing basic problem solving skills, the introduction of students to various careers, elements of teamwork and roles of different people and departments in the production and service delivery chain, the relationship between education ,training and career progression, and an opportunity for interaction with professionals. Job Shadow further helps students to relate their career aspirations to what may be available or existing at these work places.

You Mean Someone Out There Might Find Anything Interesting In My Country!

Company program participants

Students participating in the JA Company Program learn the basics of foreign trade, set up and operate a company, work with students from other nations, and come to appreciate the diversity and benefits of doing business across diverse cultures. This increases their understanding of the challenges and benefits in export and import business.

Wow! A Consultant For A Day!

The innovation camp is a full day's event of intensive and highly versatile activity where multiple schools participate in an idea generating session that inspires thinking out of the box. Young people learn to solve unfamiliar real business challenges in the shortest time possible, in an unfamiliar environment and with no prior clue of what the challenge can be. The exercise sharpens the young minds' innovativeness, discovers their individual potential, learns to work in teams and stimulates their participation with confidence.

Company Program Girl Leaders

A JA program aimed to further inspire girls to aspire for business leadership. For girl participants who have held positions of responsibility within the Junior Achievement Company Program. A critical intervention as these girls are in their prime; a critical period in their development as many at this age get distracted and sometimes derailed by societal pressure, rigid gender role expectations and wavering self esteem.

Undergraduate Financial Education By Practice

Takes the advanced form of the JA Company Program helping undergraduates to have a real business experience by developing a viable business idea that can compete in a general business environment. The action is guided by a business consultant and an academic tutor where the presence of a business consultant at every weekly meeting ensures that the participants are well prepared before they are left to run the company on their own.