Vulnerable young people: Job and life skills

2019 finds Fundación Oportunidad facing new challenges. We are currently preparing the agenda of the last workshops to finish the full implementation of the project. This will be over on the 31 of March.

Fundación Oportunidad has stablished a formal insitutional agreement with the University of Buenos Aires, specifically with the Department of Ethics and Human Rights of the Psychology Faculty,that allowed us to start an university programm, dedicated to the reflexion and analysis of a varios creative resources upon youngsters in enclosed context.

The 80 % of this project was carried out in prisions, working with younsgters that came from very vulnerable contexts. We have worked with them in different subjetcs, that promoted the self reflexction and invite to a new perspective regarfdng these areas:

-       Identities

-       Life project

-       Employment

-       Diversity and Inclusion

The agreement with the University of Buenos Aires, introduced a fruitful way were State and NGO sinegized their approaches. 

In the past months we have presented a new project to the INJUVE ( NAtional Intitute of Youth) with the aim of working with youngsters in the recenttly opened Penal Modelo de Campana ( a special prison designed to receive the young adults that are just about to be reintegrated to the society.  In this sense working with the Department of Ethics and Humans rights allows Fundación Oportunidad to incorparate valuable conceptual resources and frameworks.

We hope that you can support our work and be part to this transformation!

November 2018 

YOUTH FOR THE FUTURE AUGUST REPORT GG

We are happy to share news with you!!

The "Youth for the Future" Program, aimed at young people between 18 and 24 years of age who are in a situation of social vulnerability in the Province of Buenos Aires. As we discussed earlier, these young people suffer an unfavorable integration in the world of work that puts them at risk of social exclusion.The "Youth for the Future" Project gives workshops on "Life Project" and "Employability". In past reports we tell you about our experience in the cities of Derqui, Tres de Febrero, La Plata, Burzaco and San Fernando (Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina) These workshops are conducted in partnership with training spaces, dining rooms, clubs and other social organizations to which young people attend We are currently developing workshops in criminal courts with the same characteristics. Young people who are deprived of their freedom are having the opportunity to participate in these workshops as well. 12 workshops have already been held in the Marcos Paz Prison in the Province of Buenos Aires. About 200 young people participated.We are happy because in a few months we will finish this mission and start with a new one.

Soon we will have news.

Thank you for joining us and our young people who are the future.

We are happy to share excellent news!

We continue to work on "Youth for the Future" project, which is aimed at young people in situation of social vulnerability in the Province of Buenos Aires. Young people between 18 and 24 years old, who are dealing with an unfavorable integration in the world of work, make up an increasingly significant sector of the population at risk of social exclusion.

That is why "Youth for the Future" Project runs workshops on critical subjects: "Life Project” “ Gender and Identity” and "Employability". We have been already in Derqui, Tres de Febrero, La Plata and San Fernando (Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina) Now we are starting an excellent and challeging new experience working with juvenile offenders, At the moment, two workshops were held and the experience was more than satisfactory for both the young people and the trainers. Youth for the Future is a program is being carry out in partnership with different social organizarions and institutions, in which tye youngers participate or take part. We want to thank these different spaces to allow us to be part of your agenda!

In our next report we will be sharing some testimonies from some of the participants that are part of this rich experiencie.

We are happy to share news with youWe continue to execute the "Youth for the Future" Program, which is aimed at 3350 young people in situations of social vulnerability in the Province of Buenos Aires. 67 Youth and Employability workshops will be carried out that would be developed in partnership with training spaces, canteens, clubs and other social organizations attended by young people from the geographical areas of the localities of the Province of Buenos Aires, such as Lanús, San Fernando, Tres de Febrero, San Martin, Ezeiza and Marcos Paz.Young people between 18 and 24 years old, who suffer an unfavorable integration in the world of work, make up an increasingly significant sector of the population at risk of social exclusion.Our workshops seek critical reflection on young people and work, as well as promoting active practices for the construction of a life project, where their own desires, resources and interests have a privileged place.In the city of Lanús, province of Buenos Aires, Argentina: a workshop was held in the so-called Casas del Futuro. The Identity and Life Project workshops were held in the month of April. In the city of San Fernando, province of Buenos Aires: workshops were held in the Caacupé neighborhood center. The Identity and Life Project workshops were held in the months of May and June. In the City of Derqui, province of Buenos Aires: workshops were held in collaboration with Fundación Cimientos in June.We still have a long way to go to achieve the goal, we hope they continue to accompany us to improve the future of our young Argentines.

With joy we share our enthusiasm for the beginning of our new stagewith the "Youth for the Future" Program, which is aimed at 3350 young people in situations of social vulnerability in the Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina. 67 Youth and Employability workshops will be carried out that would be developed in partnership with training spaces, canteens, clubs and other social organizations attended by young people from the geographical areas of the localities of the Province of Buenos Aires, such as Lanús, San Fernando, Tres de Febrero, San Martin, Ezeiza and Marcos Paz.

Our workshops seek critical reflection on young people and work, as well as promoting active practices for the construction of a life project, where their own desires, resources and interests have a privileged place.

Young people between 18 and 24 years old, who suffer an unfavorable integration in the world of work, make up an increasingly significant sector of the population at risk of social exclusion.

Our experience has shown us that a high percentage of young people who are in school sustain a work activity, in a very high percentage, informal or precarious work.

The project finds its foundation in statistical data that show the pressing need to give effective answers to the problem of youth unemployment. The age range from 18 to 24 years, suffers the highest rates of unemployment and lower activity rates. 17.6% of young people up to 24 years old are unemployed, against an average level of unemployment of the economically active population that reaches 6.9%, according to data from Cippec based on the Permanent Household Survey of the fourth quarter of 2014. Almost 60% of young people work in the informal economy, when the general average for the entire active population is 34.3%. Likewise, an estimated 750,000 young people do not study or work. The Ministry of Labor of Argentina reveals that 29.8% of young people in the province of Buenos Aires have a job, but 63.3% work in precarious conditions generating a situation of labile employment. Poor women participate in the informal labor market with worse wages and opportunities. The young people constitute, in this way, a population group with serious problems of insertion in the labor market.