Junior Achievement Georgia

Junior Achievement Georgia (JAG) was founded in December of 2002. It is one of 121 Member Nation affiliates’ of Junior Achievement Worldwide, the world’s oldest and largest non-profit organization devoted to promoting an understanding of the principles and values of entrepreneurship and the free market system by sponsoring programs of economic education that involves the participation of both, educators and business people. Junior Achievement Georgia combines Georgians’ traditional love and respect for educational excellence with proved techniques of economic and civic education developed by Junior Achievement Worldwide. Building partnerships between, community members, Governmental Structures, teachers and business people, Junior Achievement Georgia trains people in principles and values of the freedom in free market economy while exposing them to the excitement of planning, developing and operating their own businesses. At the same time, Junior Achievement Georgia shows young people how success of a free market economy depends on the rule of law and on people honoring ethical values as much in their businesses, as in their families.