Junior Achievement Nigeria (JAN)

JA BE ENTREPRENEURIAL Junior Achievement Nigeria (JA Nigeria) is poised to empower more Senior Secondary School students across in Lagos with the knowledge necessary to start an entrepreneurial venture while still in high school. The students will be taught using the JA Be Entrepreneurial program wi th support of the UPS Foundation which has partnered with JA Nigeria for the past four years with this program. JA Be Entrepreneurial aims to help students recognize characteristics and practices of successful entrepreneurs, evaluate an entrepreneurial idea based on product, customer, and competitive-advantage criteria, and demonstrate business-planning skills for venture start-up, marketing, financing, management, and ethical decision-making. The objectives of the program include: Help students understand Business ethics. Help students develop critical thinking, speaking, and leadership skills. Introduce students to various ways of cr...

  For the second year in a row, MasterCard is supporting Junior Achievement Nigeria (JA Nigeria) to reach more girls with entrepreneurship and financial literacy training to build the business skills of the girls through the Girls Enterprise Program (GEP). The goal of the program is to provide young girls with additional educational opportunities to learn about business, economics and free enterprise. The GEP is an adapted Company Program of JA Nigeria for young girls between the ages of 14 and 18 from disadvantage backgrounds in Lagos, Port Harcourt and Abuja. The program will run for a period of 12 months during which entrepreneurship skills, work readiness, financial literacy and life skills will be administered. The grant from MasterCard will enable JA Nigeria to enhance her traditional entrepreneurship training with business mentoring that will help the participants to establish viable startup companies within a year of completing the program. During the course...