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Company Name Junior Achievement Bulgaria Contact Person Milena Stoycheva Position Executive Director PR Director Milka Semova Telephone +359 2 987 3456 E-mail jab@jabulgaria.org Website http://www.jabulgaria.org

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1. How does the concept of Corporate Social Responsibility correspond with the mission and heritage of your company?
Junior Achievement Bulgaria was created to educate young Bulgarians to value free enterprise, understand business and economics, develop ethical leadership and be workforce ready.

Junior Achievement Bulgaria www.jabulgaria.org is a member nation of JAI www.jaintl.org through an operating agreement since 1996. JAI is the oldest and fastest growing organization for teaching economics and business through various hand-on and innovative programs. JA Bulgaria is also a member of JA-YE Europe which is the regional European entity www.ja-ye.org


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2. What is your company's CSR involvement with the COMMUNITY?
Junior Achievement develops and implements economic education programs for young people through a partnership between business and education. These programs help young people gain an understanding of:
 the importance of market-driven economies;
 the role of business in a global economy;
 the commitment of business to environment and social issues;
 the commitment of business to act in an ethical manner;
 the relevance of education in the workplace;
 the impact of economics on their future.
Traditionally, JA programs are taught by volunteer business-consultants from the real sector and practically we work to educate the business community in order to create such a network in Bulgaria.

Thanks to our donors’ support over 11,000 JA Bulgaria students from over 40 Bulgarian cities have been given the opportunity to demonstrate their outstanding business and entrepreneurial skills at many national and international events for the period 1997/1998 – 2002/2003 academic years:

JAB Gallery of Stars
- Three JA Bulgaria students participated in the Annual JA Europe Conference – Bucharest, Romania - 1998
- Three JA Bulgaria students took part in the Summer Camp for Business Leaders in Latvia – 1998
- A JA Bulgaria student won the Hewlett-Packard international essay contest and was an official speaker at the HP Global Business Challenge Finals – Palo Alto, USA - 2000
- Team Santa Ana won 2nd place in the 2000 European Virtual Entrepreneur internet based competition
- Three JA Bulgaria students participated in the Annual JA Europe Conference – Casta, Slovakia – 2000
- Team Westwood won 1st place in the 2001 European Virtual Entrepreneur internet based competition
- Two JA Bulgaria students took part in the JA International Global Trade Institute – Chicago, USA - 2001
- Three JA Bulgaria students participated in the Annual JA Europe Conference – Zlin, Czech Republic – 2001
- Team Santa Ana won 4th place out of 1056 international teams in the worldwide Hewlett-Packard Global Business Challenge competition in Singapore - 2001
- Two JA Bulgaria students took part in the JA International Global Trade Institute - Chicago, USA - 2002
- Team Thracian won 3rd place in the 2002 European Virtual Entrepreneur internet based competition
- Three JA Bulgaria students participated in the JA Europe Annual Conference – Madrid, Spain - 2002
- Three JA Bulgaria students participated in the JA - YE Europe Global Village Summer Camp in Hungary - 2003
- Team FBLE won 1st place in the 2003 European Virtual Entrepreneur internet based competition
- Team BGTEAM won 4th place out of 1100 international teams in the worldwide Hewlett-
Packard Global Business Challenge competition in Barcelona – 2003
- Overall 160 JA student companies have operated throughout the country


3. What is your company's CSR involvement with the ENVIRONMENT?
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4. What is your company's CSR attitude towards your EMPLOYEES?
Apart from JAB Gallery of Stars, JAB takes pride in the formation of the Alumni Business

Club (ABC). It is a result from the change in mindset which is Junior Achievement’s

greatest role in the society and especially among young people.

JAB team maintains high professional standards through different qaulification programs.

Junior Achievement Bulgaria is a company of people who expect to:

- be treated equally and fairly;
- have an opportunity to develop and advance;
- know what is expected of us and be kept candidly informed of our performance and

progress;
- be judged individually for the quality and consistency of our effort,

enthusiasm, honesty, and results;
- respect others as valuable individuals and work with people who respect us as

valuable individuals;
- be able to make suggestions that will be taken seriously and be able to

reasonably speak our minds;
- receive ample information about the company’s plans, activities, and results;

and,
- work as part of a team that recognizes and values the contribution that each

individual makes and recognizes the role of each individual as fundamental to the

success of the team as a whole.


5. What is your company's CSR involvement with YOUNG PEOPLE and EDUCATION?
JAB has been a great believer in the investment in Bulgarian youth and has been an active supporter of BBLF’s Career Advise Project since its inception in 2001. JAB also initiated a job shadowing program, Manager For A Day, an initiative which has given the chance to over 500 high school students for early job orientation for the past three years.

6. What is your company's practice of BUSINESS ETHICS?
JA Bulgaria employees share responsibility for fulfilling our mission. We will strive to exemplify the values stated herein. The staff of JA Bulgaria recognizes the critical role of conscience in the daily and long-term performance of our work and jointly commits to perform at the highest levels possible to achieve excellence and customer satisfaction.

To the best of our ability, we strive to:

- demonstrate the highest standards of personal integrity and truthfulness in all our activities;
- avoid any activity which is in conflict with the conduct of our official duties;
- uphold all laws and regulations that relate to the company’s activities;
- consistently use factual, current and truly representative information in all communications;
- commit to financial reporting in accordance with requirements of the financial accounting standards as outlined in the JA Bulgaria Accounting Policy Manual; and,
- not allow any form of illegal discrimination, fraud and mismanagement, or misappropriation of contributors’ funds.


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