Education Argentina Project #4357

Give Argentine Youth a Chance

by Fundacion Cimientos

Project Report | Nov 28, 2021
Giving Tuesday is right away: read our great news!

By Maria Hilaire | Graduates Network Director

Dear friends,

Mark your calendars! There are only 2 days until #GivingTuesday!

With $1 MILLION USD in funding available from @GlobalGiving, there’s never been a better time to give. Tell your family and friends: the more they give, the more Cimientos gets!

The end of the year is approaching and today we want to tell you about progress regarding training for employment and the labor insertion of our young people...

In October, the last National Virtual Youth Meeting of the year was held, with 241 young people who participated in talks and workshops during 3 days that addressed different topics regarding the search for a first job. Once the event was over, 29 mock job interviews were organized with company volunteers to train our youth for real interviews.

Jasmine, a young woman from the Province of Buenos Aires wrote to us: “I really appreciate your virtual meetings. You taught me how to use new technologies and means of communication. I congratulate and thank you for your effort in organizing each day and thanks to each speaker. Thanks to you, today I have tools and new and reverted knowledge, and methodologies to face the future, taking good steps after I finish high school. With all my heart, thank you very much "

After this National Meeting and while we are finishing the training courses for employment that this year reached more than 300 young people, we are contacting companies to inquire about their active job searches and recommending young people from Cimientos.

In the last 2 months we shared more than 20 job offers and there are 75 young people who this year got registered jobs thanks to our intervention.

Nicole, who entered Mercado Libre, wrote to us a few weeks ago: “I'm doing very well, I get along well with my colleagues and the managers treat me very well too. Thanks for everything! I started working seasonally, but here I am about to turn 5 months =) "

If you want to support our work so that more and more young people like Jasmine and Nicole have access to employment and training opportunities that allow them to escape poverty, please consider making a donation next Tuesday, November 30, since GlobalGiving will match every donation received on this day. You can also be of huge help if you spread the word and share our link with family and friends.

Best regards and thanks for your support,

María

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Sep 29, 2021
Accompanying youth for their future

By Maria Hilaire | Project Leader - Red de Egresados

Dear friends,

It is a pleassure to get in touch with you again and let you know about our latest news and projects. On our last report, we shared some of the activities that took place on the first months of the year, in which we accompanied our young students in their transition from school to higher education studies.

In this opportunity, we are very proud to share with you all some of the different actions that we were able to carry out with a lot of effort and commitment in these months:

Webinars: in order to provide tools for those young people who are pursuing their higher education, we held 2 webinars:

*"How to prepare and take a good exam". It was a workshop provided by the Pedagogical Department and the Universidad Tecnica Nacional (UTN) from Concordia. 58 students from different provinces of the country participated.

Together with Virginia Argento (volunteer and specialist in Communications) we held a workshop on Public Speaking for the presentation of exams and assignments. More than 100 young people from Cimientos and other allied organizations participated in it. Topics such as: fear of making oral presentations in public and tips to develop oratory were worked on. The workshop was very well received by participants. We invite you to listen to Virginia´s testimony -> https://fb.watch/8iKb1ZY8ls/

2nd Virtual National Youth Meeting: it was held in July and it was organized together with our “Future Graduates” team. The meeting was designed for students of the last two years of high school and already graduated youth. Professional panels, talks and workshops took place during 4 days addressing different topics in relation to the “day after school”. We had a participation of 284 young people over the four days (and 394 views on YouTube) and the recommendation indicator / Net Promoter Score (NPS) was 84%.(https://www.linkedin.com/posts/fundacioncimientos_somoseducaciaejn-somosfuturo-somosoportunidades-activity-6824467850531500032-7GJT)

We will keep up working hardly so at to continue accompanying youth in their path through high school and in their transition to higher studies or work; bringing close more and better opportunities for their future.

We are very gratefull for your support and hope to keep counting with you to achieve our goals!

Best regards,

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Jun 1, 2021
Accompanying youth in university studies

By Maria Hilaire | Graduates Network Director

Micaela received her donated computer

Dear friends,

On our last report, we shared our 2020 results, mentioning all of the activities and results we could achieve and what we´ve learned while virtualizing our program during the global pandemic.

One of the things we noticed last year is that many of our young people didn´t have neither technological tools nor enough knowledge to keep up with university virtual lessons. Around 27% of the youth who graduated from high school in 2019 and had started tertiary and university careers in 2020 dropped out due to these issues and also, because they didn´t like what they have chosen to study.

That´s why this year we decided to increase the work we do to accompany their transition from high school to universities by these 4 actions:

1) On April, we held a three-day National Virtual meeting where almost 200 hundred youth participated in workshops and talks about the following subjects: Motivation as the key to success to study effectively, The first steps to take when studying a career, Tips for taking virtual lessons, Use of bibliographic resources and digital tools to study and Information on scholarships for tertiary and university studies.

2) We researched whom, of the around 25 youth that thanks to our program obtained a scholarship to start a career in 2021, only had a cell phone to take their virtual lessons and 11 of them didn´t have tablets or computers. We obtained a donation of computers that were delivered to them at the beggining of May to keep up with their studies.

3) We will be leading some other webinars to accompany them during this year. On June we will hold one about how to prepare a good exam.

4) For 300 youth who are finishing high school this year accompanied by Cimientos, we will increase our vocational workshops and talks about different careers and institutions for them to have more information to decide better what and where they can study.

We hope to keep counting with your support to be able to hold all of these strategies which are so crucial for low income youth.

Best regards,

María

Computer donations, ready to be sent to students

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