Basement Systems Owner Named to Free Enterprise Hall of Fame

Lawrence Janesky, founder and president of Basement Systems Inc., reflected on the people and principles that helped him and his basement waterproofing and crawl space repair company to the level of success at which it now stands during his acceptance speech for being conducted into the Connecticut Junior Achievement Hall of Fame.

Junior Achievement (JA) has been educating and inspiring young people to understand business and global economics to improve the quality of their lives. Junior Achievement is the largest non-profit economic education organization with programs taught by classroom volunteers from the business community across America and in more than 100 other countries.

Each year Junior Achievement honors individuals who donate their time and resources to the program. Junior Achievement is a volunteer-driven, non-profit organization. More than 2,000 business professionals, parents, retirees and college students will enter schools this year to teach the JA programs. Volunteers use personal experiences to make the curricula practical and realistic. Providing children with positive adult role models, who illustrate ways to build self-confidence, develop skills and find avenues of success in a free enterprise system, is the focus of Junior Achievement.