Junior Achievement receives Difference Makers Award | KLRT [Video]

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Students at Southwest High School spent the day learning a valuable lesson by David Michael. David is a volunteer with Junior Achievement of Arkansas. The nonprofit strives to empower the next generation by offering programs that target financial literacy, entrepreneurship, and work readiness.

“A lot of times students don’t have exposure to the things that they want to do, so what we do is provide volunteers who have jobs that they would like to work in and then we also give them the ability to see someone actually in action,” Antwanette Smith with Junior Achievement said.

Junior Achievement has impacted more than 23,000 students in Arkansas. The nonprofit will be able to have an even greater reach since Rainwater, Holt and Sexton named the organization as this month’s Difference Maker and donated $1,000. Junior Achievement plans to pump the money right back into students in Arkansas.