• Subscribe
  • Advertise
  • About Us
  • Contact
Thursday, May 15, 2025
  • Login
  • Register
No Result
View All Result
Yo School Mag
  • Home
  • Community
  • News
    • Politics
    • Crime
    • Provincial
    • National
  • Entertainment
    • Events
  • Sports
    • Schools Sports
    • Club Sports
  • Local Business
  • About Us
DONATE
  • Home
  • Community
  • News
    • Politics
    • Crime
    • Provincial
    • National
  • Entertainment
    • Events
  • Sports
    • Schools Sports
    • Club Sports
  • Local Business
  • About Us
No Result
View All Result
Yo School Mag
No Result
View All Result
Home Uncategorized

Building Resilience in Africa’s Youth!

by mzukona
June 18, 2024
in Uncategorized
0 0
0
Building Resilience in Africa’s Youth!
0
SHARES
0
VIEWS
Share on FacebookShare on Twitter

All too soon we are drawing curtains on an amazing 2021! Just looking back at how much we have achieved this year, I can’t help but be thankful. Grateful for my incredibly hardworking team at JA Africa and the opportunities to learn from and collaborate with my fellow regional leaders at JA Europe, JA MENA (INJAZ Al-Arab), JA Asia, JA Americas and JA USA.

Last month, we had an incredible three weeks participating in JA Worldwide’s Global Leadership Conference with thousands of JA staff all around the world. The highlight for me was Africa Day, when we got to showcase some of what we’ve been working on at JA Africa. I hosted a panel on Philanthropy in Africa with distinguished panelists, Mrs. Tsitsi Masiyiwa, Chair of both the Higher Life Foundation and the African Philanthropy Forum, the amazing Dr. Una Osili, an expert in global philanthropy that I’ve come to know and really respect over the past year, and Jan Schwier, Head of the Bridgespan Group Africa who is leading research on giving in Africa! I learned so much from them and from an earlier panel with JA Africa alums Iyin Aboyeji and Farai Munjoma, which really brought home the incredible impact that JA has had on millions of young people across the globe!

We also gave the network a sneak peek at our upcoming animated financial literacy series, Junior Billionaires Club, and our online entrepreneurship education program, JA DEEP. It was a remarkable way for me to mark one year in this role as CEO of Africa and a reminder of why I continue to stay in the JA family even after 22 years.

What I have learned in my first year as JA Africa’s CEO is the power of collaboration, not just across the global JA network but among our member nations as well. Learning by sharing has been key to how our member nations have adapted to new ways of delivering programs due to the pandemic. It is exciting to see how our member nations have embraced our COY 2021 theme, “Innovating with Grit,” not only in what we teach our students but how we teach them as well. Watching the different national competitions renewed our sense of awe towards the boundless potential of African youth and we can’t wait to see the winning teams compete at the Africa COY competition in February 2022.

The silver lining from having to go virtual is the varied opportunities for our students to collaborate with students from other regions on different initiatives, such as the collaboration with JA Europe for World Food Day, which gave them the opportunity to innovate and think beyond their immediate environment. Our colleagues at INJAZ have also provided us with an opportunity to be part of their longstanding partnership with Boeing. Through this partnership, we will work together to empower over 5,000 youth in Africa with work readiness and entrepreneurship skills.

I am grateful to all our supporters, donors, board members, schools, teachers, volunteers, alumni, students and colleagues for all the hard work that has gone into JA’s success. Ending the year on a high note, I am sharing with you JA Africa’s 2020 Annual Report. Take a retrospective look at our activities and achievements in the year 2020 and celebrate with us!

Wishing you a restful holiday season, a merry Christmas and a happy new year!

Kind Regards,

Simi Nwogugu,
CEO, JA Africa

mzukona

mzukona

Nyakaza Media Solutions, founded to empower schools, helps learners research, write, and publish newsletters, bulletins, and maintain websites. With a mission to promote dialogue on issues affecting young people, the organisation encourages learners to celebrate excellence, embrace growth, and strive for greatness. Nyakaza Media Solutions aims to foster better individuals and future South African leaders through positive and productive behaviour.

Newsletter

Subscribe to our newsletter and receive news updates, latest competitions and also exciting event announcements.

This initiative is offered by

Member of

Developed by

Category

About Us

Yo School Mag

Nyakaza Media Solutions - Yo School Magazine

Nyakaza Media Solutions, founded to empower schools, helps learners research, write, and publish newsletters, bulletins, and maintain websites. With a mission to promote dialogue on issues affecting young people, the organisation encourages learners to celebrate excellence, embrace growth, and strive for greatness. Nyakaza Media Solutions aims to foster better individuals and future South African leaders through positive and productive behaviour.

  • About
  • Advertise
  • Subscribe
  • Contact
  • Terms & Conditions
  • Privacy Policy
  • Cookie Policy (ZA)

© 2023 ePress - digitise your media outlet.

No Result
View All Result
  • Politics
  • Municpality
  • Local Business
  • Provincial
  • National
  • Entertainment
  • Events
  • Schools
  • Announcements
  • Sports
  • Community
  • Letter
  • Crime
  • People
  • Local Heros
  • Food

© 2023 ePress - digitise your media outlet.

Welcome Back!

Login to your account below

Forgotten Password? Sign Up

Create New Account!

Fill the forms below to register

All fields are required. Log In

Retrieve your password

Please enter your username or email address to reset your password.

Log In
Manage Cookie Consent
We use technologies like cookies to store and/or access device information.
Functional Always active
The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network.
Preferences
The technical storage or access is necessary for the legitimate purpose of storing preferences that are not requested by the subscriber or user.
Statistics
The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for statistical purposes. The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for anonymous statistical purposes. Without a subpoena, voluntary compliance on the part of your Internet Service Provider, or additional records from a third party, information stored or retrieved for this purpose alone cannot usually be used to identify you.
Marketing
The technical storage or access is required to create user profiles to send advertising, or to track the user on a website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.
Manage options Manage services Manage {vendor_count} vendors Read more about these purposes
View preferences
{title} {title} {title}