JA AFRICA 2019 COMPANY OF THE YEAR COMPETITION, COY is Africa’s premier pitch competition for high school youth and the culmination of JA’s highly acclaimed Company Program, which teaches introductory business to thousands of students in Africa. The Company Program teaches students how to start their own businesses from capitalization at the beginning of the academic year, to developing and marketing a product or service and running their companies through the end of the year. Students then compete nationally, with the winners representing their respective countries at the Africa regional level. The COY Competition creates a signature showcase for JA, its sponsors and, most importantly, the students, who get to demonstrate their business acumen and spirit of entrepreneurship in a competitive environment. This annual event engages business, education and policy leaders as well as the media.
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Chief Executive Officer of JA Africa (Junior Achievers Africa) Elizabeth Elango Bintliff. A true Visionair of all standards! watched Mr Emmanuel Awumee’s presentation on the #TEDXAccra2016 platform and followed him carefully for three years without his knowledge. After she came to terms with the fact that The CEO of SESIL is a revealing African Entrepreneur with a strong passion for the Human Capacity Development of the African Youth and Start-Up Entrepreneurs. She gave him an International platform, not just as a Speaker, but as a Keynote Speaker for the globally acclaimed JA’s COY event which took place on the 6th of December, 2019 at the Swiss Spirit Hotel in Accra bringing together high school students from 15 African Countries.
In His speech he stated that, the wealth of Creative and Innovative potentials in the African Youth cannot be over emphasized. which was demonstrated at the JA Africa Company of the Year Competition #AfricaCOY19, that brought together students from various African countries to compete for various Awards. “Africa is endowed with both Human, Mineral and Natural Resource Capital and should not be struggling.
You can only Discover, Nurture, Develop and Grow to become a giant, which takes a Process and not an event to make one self reliant at the end of the Value Chain. Anything short of that will make Africa remain dependent” Mr Awumee commended JA Worldwide, JA Africa and all the organisers who have been involved in creating the platform to grow entreneurship in Africa.
His speech received a standing ovation from the Group President of JA Worldwide Mr Asheesh Advani, Mr Bethel Yeboah the Public Affairs and Communications Manager of THE COCA-COLA BOTTLING COMPANY OF GHANA who was the chairman of the event and the entire audience.