JA Success Skills in one day

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Two editions of JA Success Skills were held on the 27th and 29th July 2015 at Centre Social Marie Reine de la Paix, Port Louis. Sixty students got the opportunity to participate in the events organized by JA Mascareignes through the support of Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC)

JA Success Skills is a fun interactive hands-on program aiming at introducing students to developing personal strategies and critical thinking skills while preparing them for the pursuit of career opportunities.

The event enabled our participants to overcome their shyness, to develop team spirit, communication, problem solving and interpersonal skills. Throughout the day, the students participated in several activities, which they enjoyed among which were mock interviews, sketches and role plays all related to the world of environment.  amongst others, that they enjoyed.

As commented by Cedric Nombreuse of Phoenix SSS College: “ I have learnt how to write my CV and motivational letter, but most importantly I have learnt the importance of developing my interpersonal and networking skills, and I would like to encourage others to participate in JA Success Skills program”.

Social Awareness Programme

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The Socio-Economic Awareness Program is the new program developed by Junior Achievement Mascareignes. Its aim is at making young adults, living in “Pockets of Poverty”, of the island become aware of opportunities existing in their community in order to ensure their economic sustainability.

The program was implemented on a pilot basis with the beneficiaries of the OLEA Project, a social support project for 50 families in the Moka region. Most of them come from the region of Alma and Vuillemin. These are areas of Mauritius where many people are unemployed, low skilled and live in difficult conditions. Unfortunately, many of them expect the authorities to provide them with the means so they may get out of their present situation.

JA Mascareignes seeks to address this issue by making them aware of the opportunities which are available to them. Socio-Economic Awareness Program is as a wakeup call to get them to take their future in their own hands and to stop being a spectator in their own  life.

For Mrs Pierette Fineau, a beneficiary of the OLEA Project, this had the positive expected impact. “It made me realise that I had been complacent in the past. I was waiting for someone else to get me out of my situation but realized that I was the one who had to make the first step. JA Mascareignes Socio-Economic Awareness Program, provided me with the necessary knowledge and made me understand that I had the tools to extricate myself from my present condition and move up the economic ladder”.

The new Program has done a lot to motivate Mrs Fineau and to give her back the self-confidence that she had lost. “I feel ready now to face the difficulties of having my own business. I learnt, for example, about financial management both as an individual and as a business. I know that I can do it now”.

She used to have her own business, rearing poultry and selling vegetables, but stopped due to various difficulties. “I have now started a rabbit and poultry rearing business. The….