Junior Achievement Hong Kong is inspiring and empowering local Hong Kong children to becoming the next generation of entrepreneurs with a Monopoly style board game. It is true that not everyone wants to be an entrepreneur, but by engaging in a specially designed board game, a group of six pupils at Pat Heung Central Primary School in Yuen Long have gotten some idea of what running a business would be like.
Besides giving the board game to schools it works with, the charity has conducted entrepreneurship training sessions for young students. It wants to encourage the juniors to learn creating development opportunities for themselves, and become the masters of their own lives.
Dr William Lo Wing-yan, chairman of Junior Achievement Hong Kong and veteran executive who has run major companies in telecommunications and media industries, said the “Be My Own Boss” programme, which targets primary students, was one of many projects the Hong Kong-based organisation had developed to prepare young people for employment and entrepreneurship.
Lo, a firm believer in the power of knowledge to change lives, said his team wanted to help more people, especially those who were trapped in a cycle of poverty.
“We want to give the disadvantaged children more opportunities,” he said, adding that the programme would be open to students’ parents starting next year.
Irene Lai Yuen-shan, principal of Pat Heung Central Primary School, said life planning should start early.
“Students need to set themselves a goal and work towards it,” she said.
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