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A team sharing ideas<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n DELTA AIR Lines and Junior Achievement (JA) Africa have renewed their partnership to advance business and STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) education among young people across the continent.<\/p>\n JA Africa is one of Africa\u2019s largest and most impactful youth-serving NGOs delivering hands-on, immersive learning in work, financial health, entrepreneurship, sustainability, STEM, economics, citizenship, ethics and more.<\/p>\n As part of its partnership with JA Africa, the airline will present the Delta Social Impact Award at JA Africa\u2019s flagship Company of the Year Competition, billed for Lagos, Nigeria from December 7-9, 2022.<\/p>\n The event is the culmination of a year\u2019s work for the young participants from Eswatini, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe, who have created and run their own businesses over the past academic year as part of the JA Company Program.<\/p>\n \u201cAs the next generation of business leaders \u2013 and global travelers \u2013 we work with Junior Achievement across the globe to facilitate education programs for young people,\u201d said Nicolas Ferri, Delta\u2019s Vice President Europe, Middle East, Africa and India.<\/p>\n \u201cOver the next 12 months, Delta will also sponsor JA Africa\u2019s STEM innovation camps for 50 school children each in Accra and Dakar \u2013 two of the cities from where the airline flies nonstop to the United States.<\/p>\n Simi Nwogugu, CEO of JA Africa, said: \u201cWe are honored to have Delta Air Lines as a long-standing partner. Their sponsorship for JA Africa\u2019s 2022 Company of the Year Competition, through the Social Impact Award, will encourage our young entrepreneurs to use innovative approaches to solving societal issues. This grant will also support Innovation Camps in Ghana and Senegal which provides a forum for our students to work in groups to address real-life business challenges.<\/p>\n JA Africa has a presence in 13 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa and collectively reaches more than 300,000 young people and more than 3000 schools every year.<\/p>\n JA works in C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire, Eswatini, Gabon, Ghana, Kenya, Mauritius, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe with a goal to secure better lives for the young, their families, and their communities.<\/p>\n A business desk report<\/strong><\/p>\n \n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A team sharing ideas \u00a0 DELTA AIR Lines and Junior Achievement (JA) Africa have renewed their partnership to advance business and STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) education among young people across the continent. JA Africa is one of Africa\u2019s largest and most impactful youth-serving NGOs delivering hands-on, immersive learning in work, financial health, entrepreneurship, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1230607,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[671,2009,2884,6153,6414],"class_list":["post-1230605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-africa","tag-business","tag-delta","tag-education","tag-stem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1230605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1230605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1230605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1230605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1230605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1230605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}