Young Entrepreneur Sri Lanka (YESL) is a non-profit organization, financed by businesses, foundations and individuals, to educate and inspire young children from primary school through high school to value free enterprise, understand Business and Economics, to be self-dependant, be workforce ready, be job-creators instead of job-seekers.
YESL is the Sri Lanka affiliate of Junior Achievement (JA) www.ja.org that was started by a group of entrepreneurs in the U.S in 1919 to make school leavers workforce ready. The JA program now operates in over 100 countries reaching almost 9 million students and is considered as the world’s largest organization dedicated to educating students about workforce readiness, entrepreneurship and financial literacy through experiential, hands-on programs.
YESL program help prepare young people for the real world by showing them how to generate wealth and effectively manage it, how to create jobs which make their communities more robust, and how to apply entrepreneurial thinking to the workplace. Students put these lessons into action and learn the value of contributing to their communities.
Read more about the programes they are running:
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