Barclays Partnership

BARCLAYS Bank has entered into a $150,000 partnership agreement with the Junior Achievement of Ghana to harness entrepreneurship skills for young adults in the country.
Consequently, the agreement was initiated to help disadvantaged young adults to work towards financial independence and security as well as supporting access to education.
Speaking at the official launch of the Barclays/Junior Achievement Partnership in Accra, the Minister of Education, Mr Alex Tettey-Enyo, said the government had initiated a number of interventions to resolve some of the challenges that confront the educational system.
He said, the youth should be made agents of change in local communities to ensure efficiency in the education sector, promote job opportunities and improve growth in the country.
Mr Tettey-Enyo urged Barclays and other corporate bodies to continue to support efforts aimed at developing the educational system in Ghana.
He urged students to take advantage of the training programme to upgrade their skills to get them ready for the job market.
The Minister expressed his appreciation to Barclays Bank for their financial support and partnership with Junior Achievement to enable the programme become a reality.
The Executive Director of Junior Achievement of Ghana, Mr Jefferson Worlanyo Agbai, said, the group was to inspire and prepare young people to succeed in the global economy.
He said, for the past 90 years, Junior Achievement had helped young people by showing them how to generate wealth and manage it and also apply entrepreneurial thinking at the workplace.
Mr Agbai said Junior Achievement had imparted business and economic values to over 3,000 students and the programme sought to reach at least one per cent of the 4.5 million young people by 2013.
He noted that, the initiative would have a positive and profound impact on students’ ability to succeed on the job market.
The Managing Director of Barclays Bank, Mr Benjamin Dabrah noted that the grant would help to bring out the untapped talents of over 80,000 young people whom he said, were future employees and customers of the bank.
We are happy to be working with Junior Achievement, an organisation with a track record and experience to provide what young people need to realise their full potentials, Mr Dabrah stated.
For his part, the American Ambassador to Ghana, Mr Donald Teitelbaum was optimistic that, many young professionals would be great achievers in future.