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Junior Chamber International: empower young people to create positive change
(From left) Past President/Executive Assistant of JCI West Indies, Nasoya Chapman, Past Vice President of JCI local organisation Shawn Austin and member of JCI Guyana Cordel Joseph.
Economic opportunity is the basis of development of every community and the Junior Chamber International (JCI) Guyana will be resuscitated to active duty in the quest to provide developmental opportunities to empower young people to create positive change.
The Non Governmental Organisation (NGO) is seeking membership from persons between the ages of 18 and 40 to assist in developing the leadership and entrepreneurship skills of young men and women countrywide.
According to Past President/Executive Assistant of JCI West Indies, Nasoya Chapman, using the JCI Active Citizen Framework, JCI members can take action through projects that provide economic opportunity within the community.
Adding that the JCI Active Citizen Framework fosters entrepreneurship, she said that at a time when the world struggles with a global economic recession, rising youth unemployment, economic stagnation and poverty, there is a dire need for increased economic opportunities.
“Every society has its own needs; those needs are determined through a needs assessment and analysis. In communities where there is a need for fostering and developing entrepreneurs, JCI members are strongly encouraged to develop projects that will respond to this need within the context of the JCI framework. Fostering entrepreneurship is developing people who have the ability to manage or assume risk in business or enterprise. Across the world, JCI Local Organizations have a rich history of creating an environment that has enabled businesses to thrive.” Miss Chapman noted.
She said that the organisation offers unique business and life skills training for young people most of which cannot be found in Universities.
Past Vice President of JCI local organisation Shawn Austin explained that there is a limit to what governments are able to achieve in society, even as the organisation would cooperate with government. JCI members take on the challenges around them through local development initiatives. These tailored projects require members to use strategic and critical planning to craft creative solutions to the problems of their communities.
Member of JCI Guyana, Cordel Joseph, also noted that some of the plans in the pipeline include programmes to combat poverty, mentorship programmes where in school youths will be guided, working with the police traffic department to resuscitate road safety patrols, visiting homes and donating items to the less fortunate, and partnering with other NGO’s to develop communities.
The project revolves around relevant job skills training, micro financing, or business incubation; projects will only be meaningful if JCI can measure the impact of the actions taken. Consequently, it is necessary to define clear objectives, set measureable targets and be able to evaluate and monitor progress.
JCI is a membership-based nonprofit organization of 200,000 young people aged 18 to 40 in 5,000 communities and more than 100 countries around the world. JCI is also currently a member of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations.
JCI Guyana has been in existence for 46 years.
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