JA WORLDWIDE
JA’s unique approach allows volunteers from the business community and school educators to deliver our programs while sharing their experiences with the students. Embodying the heart of JA, around 384,925 classroom volunteers around the world transform the key concepts of our lessons into a message that inspires and empowers students to believe in themselves, gain self-confidence and shows them they can make a difference in the world.
JA Worldwide, set up in 1919, is the world’s largest organization dedicated to educating youths about economic and financial literacy, workforce readiness, and entrepreneurship through experiential, hands-on programs. JAWW headquarters are based in Colorado Spring in the USA is present in 121 countries around the world.
Junior Achievement programs help prepare young people for the real world by showing them how to generate wealth and effectively manage it, how to create jobs which make their communities more robust, and how to apply entrepreneurial thinking to the workplace. Students put these lessons into action and learn the value of contributing to their communities.