Junior Achievement Joins AmCham Ghana

Junior Achievement (JA) Ghana, a member of JA Worldwide, one of the world’s largest global, nonprofit organizations dedicated to empowering young people to own their economic success by enhancing the relevance of education, joins AmCham Ghana.

JA’s unique and experiential programs focus on the areas of work readiness, entrepreneurship, and financial literacy. Their programs employ a range of hands-on activities to give young people the opportunity to apply their knowledge and skills practically.

JA gives students the knowledge and skills to start and manage their businesses and to apply entrepreneurial thinking to solve everyday problems. They work to expand young peoples’ abilities to manage their finances smartly and effectively, through proven programs.

Junior Achievement was founded in the United States in 1919 to help prepare immigrant youth to enter the workforce in the country, without being disadvantaged in terms of preparedness. In 1955, JA expanded beyond the United States, and today, its programs are delivered to young people across the world.

Since its establishment in Ghana in 2008, JA Ghana has served over 20,000 Ghanaian youth in over 80 schools/institutions, across the country, with financial, in-kind, and volunteer support from stakeholders such as Nokia, Coca-Cola, Newmont Goldcorp Ghana, Goldfields Ghana Ltd, Fidelity Bank, GE, Prudential Life Insurance Ghana, Delta Airlines, Aiducation International and Swiss Re. Learn more…

 

Contact

NTHC No. 1 Aviation Lane, Baatsona – Spintex, Accra-Ghana

Email: info@jaghana.org
Telephone: +233 30 272 8249

Fair Trade Outsourcing Joins AmCham Ghana

The American Chamber of Commerce, Ghana, is pleased to announce Fair Trade Outsourcing as our new #GoldMember. Fair Trade Outsourcing is a fast-growing BPO company and fair trade outsourcing center that provides impact sourcing work for companies worldwide.

Fair Trade has its main office is in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with a global network of delivery centers in the Philippines, Mexico, and Ghana.

The quality and results they produce are not from the number of “seats” that they have but from its smart, skilled workers – the “Humans of Fair Trade Outsourcing.”

The company guarantees a safe work environment, transparency, and accountability. They have pioneered programs that make a positive social and economic impact on their agents, their families, and communities. As an advocate of the Fair Trade Principles, Fair Trade Outsourcing has implemented a Learning and Development Program that seeks to build agents’ capacities (not just train them) and reward them for working hard to improve their capabilities.

Their goal is to provide as many people as possible with impact sourcing work that pays up to 3 times the poverty line to move them into the middle-class as soon as possible and convert them from mere wage earners to capital owners. Learn more…

 

Contact

Fair Trade Outsourcing Inc.
2F Sethi Plaza and Realty
Kwame Nkrumah Ave
Adabraka, Accra
GHANA 23321