Junior
Achievement of Guam has been offering JA programs since 1976.Currently, thirty-four corporate sponsors provide funding,
company advisers, directors and volunteers.Guam, a U.S. Territory, has a population of 150,000 with English
and Chamorro as its official languages.
Junior
Achievement of Guam offers the Company Program and Personal Economics.The goal of Junior Achievement in Guam is to provide the youth of
Guam with opportunities to learn how to achieve and become successful
business leaders in the future.
When
Spanish explorer Ferdinand Magellan landed on Guam’s shores in 1521,
he found the island occupied by the Chamorros, a peaceful matriarchal
society. Spanish missionaries renamed the island as “Marianas”
(after Spain’s Queen Maria Anna) and then claimed it for Spain.
