MENA Dream Team Visualizes Success
100 Jordanian CEOs took Junior Achievement to 100 public schools, impacting more than 5,000 students.
Junior Achievement gives students the
confidence, as well as the skills, to follow
their dreams. INJAZ, as Junior Achievement
is known in the Middle East–North Africa
region, makes a real difference in young
people's lives every day by inspiring and
preparing them to enter the 21st-century
global marketplace as qualified employees
and entrepreneurs. The Business Leaders
Campaign, in partnership with committed
members of the business sector, is a
prime example of INJAZ Jordan's effective
motivational, hands-on approach to learning.
In illustration, during the month-long Business
Leaders Campaign, a group of 50 teenage
girls in a public classroom in east Amman,
a disadvantaged part of the city, reported
INJAZ's profound impact on their life goals
and world view. The students met with a
local volunteer, a CEO of one of the biggest
companies in the country. In telling the
students about his own experience—how he
started with nothing and overcame difficulties
to find success—he became their mentor. He
answered their questions and spoke to their
concerns, providing firsthand knowledge and
empowering them to pursue success.
This dedicated volunteer and well-known
CEO guided the young women to think of
goal-setting and the workplace in a new
way. He showed the students how staying in
school and acquiring relevant work-readiness
skills would help them build a bridge to their
dreams. "I now believe that I can be what I
aspire to be," said one of the students.
This session was only one of 100 similar
inspirational Business Leaders Campaign
classroom experiences. In the course
of a month, 100 Jordanian CEOs took
Junior Achievement to 100 public schools,
impacting more than 5,000 students. These
successful business leaders saw the future in
the eager faces of their students and helped
them acquire the tools and confidence to turn
their dreams into reality.