Junior Achievement

About JA: Junior Achievement (JA) uses hands-on experiences to help young people understand the economics of life. Through age-appropriate curricula, JA programs begin at the elementary school level, teaching children how they can impact the world around them as individuals, workers and consumers. JA programs continue through the middle grades and high school, focusing on the key content areas of entrepreneurship, work readiness, and financial literacy.

In the US it has become a yearly tradition for more than 40 Experian employees from the Costa Mesa and Irvine offices to volunteer through Junior Achievement at our company’s Costa Mesa adopted school, Taft Elementary.  During JA day our employees volunteer to teach children in the classroom lessons in life skills, business and economics. 

Taft Elementary is also home to a Deaf and Hard of Hearing program. Many of our volunteers donate their time to teach these lessons to hearing impaired children through sign language and alternative methods.

• During each JA Day, Experian volunteers reach out to more than 800 children at the school.  Lessons taught range from interview skills, assembly line and production, city government, community development, financial literacy and money management.
  
  
• Many volunteers teach each year - some bring new ideas and lessons to the programs they taught the year before, some like to switch grades to work with new material.  In fact, one volunteer likes to teach the grade above the one he did last year, and has encountered many of the same students year after year. 
  
  
• The children and staff at Taft often write personal thank you notes to volunteers after the volunteer day, and ask them to come back and visit.
  
  
• In 2007, Experian also awarded Junior Achievement a grant through funds from the GUS Trust, which enabled 15 High School teams to take part in a Stock Market challenge programme.  This program helps students assess their educational goals, understand their future financial responsibilities, and realize their individual potential.

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Serasa Volunteer Day

• One of the NOGs where the Volunteer Day took place in 2007 was Casa dos Velhinhos Ondina Lobo www.ondinalobo.org.br a family run institution for the elderly that supports the very poor and needy.
  
  
• Serasa professionals (in São Paulo) and their families, suppliers and partners participated in voluntary efforts to improve the quality of life of the people supported by this organisation. They got involved in painting, cleaning, gardening and entertainment and finally celebrated the makeover with some of the residents.

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