By Andrea Hellemeyer | Director
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.
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