Junior Achievement Kenya Impact Report

JA Pillars

COMPANY PROGRAMINNOVATION

CHALLENGEJOB SHADOW

Entrepreneurship Financial Literacy Work Readiness

JA Worldwide visit

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Company Program for;

• Company Program for tertiary institutions

in partnership with County Governments of

Mombasa, Kwale, Kilifi , Kiambu, Makueni,

Machakos, Nakuru and Kakamega.

• Out of School Youth Groups

• National Youth Service (NYS)

• Extreme Sports

• Kenya Prisons Service (Shimo Borstal

Institute, Kakamega Borstal Institute, Langata

Womens and Men Prison).

• Number of Youth benefi ciaries of the

program: 500 youth have benefi ted from this

program and 20 businesses established and

funded.

• Other programs implemented during the year;

• Company Program for High School

• Job Shadow

• JA Innovation Challenge 2014 2015 2014 2015 2014 2015

Job Shadow(Form 4) Company Program(Form 3) JA Social Innovation Relay(Form 2)

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Success

Story

Th ere was a stage in my life where I had only the interest

of passing my exams. I was never engaged in any extra

curriculur activities that were going on. However, the

introduction of the Junior Achievement in my former

school, Sheikh Khalifa High School, Mombasa gave me an

interest I never had. I participated in the Company Program

which was aimed at giving students an insight on how they

can start their own businesses and run them well. Th is was a

turning point for me.I was chosen to be the chief executive

offi cer of the Student run company where I discovered I

had leadership ability. My team participated at the 2012

Company Program Competitions hosted at Allidina Visram

High School where we were fi rst runners up in the Biashara

Award Category (Best Overall Student Enterprise).

Junior Achievement also gave knowledge on fi nancial

literacy and work readiness. After high school, I got an

internship opportunity within JA to support programs

at the Coast region .Being an alumnus, I had an idea

on how to conduct some of the work.I went to several

schools to educate them on entrepreneurship through the

company program.I also got an opportunity to interact

with many students and teachers who helped build my

network and also build my capacity to interact with

people.Moreover,working in an offi ce environment built

my understanding on how to have offi ce ethics and build

databases where I fi lled in data.Th e internship built me into

someone I never thought I would be.I was now determined

more than ever to succeed and learn more and more.

My K.C.S.E results were out and I managed to score an A-

and I was admitted to Moi University to pursue Economics.

My aggressiveness made my classmates to appoint me as

the class representative where I had the privilege to lead

my class and get in touch with several lecturers who later

became my mentors.

Th is was just a stepping stone for me.In the

University,elections were being held every year to choose

student leaders who would be incharge of running the

university with the help of the administration.I was at

fi rst hesistant because everyone ,me included,viewed it as

a position designated for only the brilliant students and it

felt unreachable.Later I decided to give it a try.It was the

most trying time of my life because I had less resources

to campaign among the ten thousand students of Moi

University.Nevertheless,the zeal in me made me to push

on.My friends helped me get funds to produce the posters

and the banners for the campaigns.I went door to door to

ask for votes and laying out my manifesto to the students.I

Group photo of Hellen

Brahane and fellow

student leaders at Moi

University

had worthy competitors and hence I could not even rest for

a second.

Th e elections were held after a month and I gannered more

votes than my competitors.I was sworn in the next day and

from then on so many students looked up to me.Together,I

and the other student leaders made sure that the students

got access to all university equipment and their learning

environment was conducive.Th is built my network and

I got the chance to interact with the chancellor of the

University and other administrators.

I had applied a scholarship to Africa Leadership University

in Mauritius.Even though the selection process was

rigorous,they selected me among thousands of applicants.

From there,I intend to work extra hard to achieve my

dreams.

Th is is a testimony of how Junior Achievement has

impacted me in a manner that I could have not imagined.

Hellen Brahane (far left) addressing students

during a leaders meeting on campus

JA Social Innovation

Challenge

Citi Bank

Community Day

STEM Challenge

Competition

JA Job Shadow

JA University

Innovation

Challenge Launch

JA Its Tyme