OUR HISTORY

Junior Achievement Worldwide is the largest global, nonprofit organization dedicated to teaching and empowering young people to own their economic success. JA reaches more than 10 million young people in 121 countries around the world with over Four hundred and thirty-five thousand five hundred and forty-four volunteers taught over 393,158 classes in 2014, bringing “real world” experiential learning to young people across the globe.

JA started operations in Nigeria in the last quarter of 1999, and since then has reached over 1,000,000 students in over 5,000 schools in the 36 States of the country through over 6,000 volunteers and teachers.

Junior Achievement Nigeria is the nation’s largest and fastest-growing non-profit economic education organization dedicated to empowering and preparing young people for a successful future.

Junior Achievement Nigeria (JA Nigeria) offers FREE business economic education programs tailored to add value to young people between the ages of 5 – 35 in Nigeria.