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Volunteers with J.A. help students around the world understand real-life economics1. Transcript2 of radio broadcast:
17 July 2008
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report.
Junior Achievement is an international movement to educate young people about business and economics. The purpose is to help them prepare to succeed in a world economy.
The organization is the largest of its kind. JA Worldwide says it reaches over eight million students each year in more than one hundred countries. Programs begin in elementary school and continue through middle and high school. The education is based on the ideas of market-based economics and entrepreneurship3.
Junior Achievement began in nineteen nineteen in Springfield, Massachusetts. Two business leaders, Horace Moses and Theodore Vail, joined with Senator4 Murray Crane5 of Massachusetts to start it.
For more than fifty years, Junior Achievement programs met after school. They began as a group of business clubs. The organization started with a small number of children ages ten to twelve.
But in nineteen seventy-five, Junior Achievement began to offer classes during school hours. Many more young people joined the organization once it began to teach business skills as part of the school day.
Volunteers from the community teach about businesses, how they are organized, and how products are made and sold. They also teach about the American and world economies and about industry and trade.
The Junior Achievement Company Program teaches young people how entrepreneurship works6. They learn about business by operating their own companies.
The students develop a product and sell shares in their company. They use the money to buy the materials they need to make their product, which then they sell. Finally, they return the profits to the people who bought shares in the company.
Junior Achievement says two hundred eighty-seven thousand volunteers support its programs around the world. In the United States alone, there are more than twenty-two thousand places that hold Junior Achievement events.
Junior Achievement Incorporated7 and Junior Achievement International combined their operations in two thousand four. They formed Junior Achievement Worldwide. Its headquarters8 are in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
And that's the VOA Special English Economics Report, written by Shelley Gollust and Mario Ritter. Transcripts9 and archives of our reports are at voaspecialenglish.com along with a link to the Junior Achievement Web site, ja.org. I'm Faith Lapidus.
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