Education Argentina Project #4357

Give Argentine Youth a Chance

by Fundacion Cimientos

Project Report | Mar 10, 2017
Sharing our 2016 results

By Maria Hilaire | Graduates Network Director

Last year meeting on December with 75 participants

Dear friends,

In our last report we told you we would share our annual results with you so here we are, keeping our promise...

In 2016:

1651 participants from 20 provinces received useful information about education, employment or job-training opportunities to help them reach their personal and professional goals.
354 youth graduated from high shool thanks to Cimientos scholarships and mentorings and were advised to help them define their life project on this new period.
491 graduates received vital job training such as how to search for a job, computer skills, sales and marketing, accounting lessons and customer supports.
46 participants were granted college scholarships and 6 of them proudly graduated and now have a college degree.
42 graduates found jobs thanks thanks to our help and obtained personalized mentoring during the first 3 months at their new jobs.
32 participants volunteered at Cimientos.
4 graduates meetings were held with a total of 161 participants.
10 workshops and graduates meetings were held for 355 youth, who learned how to make their CVs, recieved vocational training and listened to testimonies of different proffessionals.
2 seminars were held with human resources employers of different firms in order engage more people to hire low- income youth.
87 NGOs, universities and fcompanies worked together with the Graduates´ Network to provide low income Argentine youth with job opportunities, employment training and education resources.

For 2017 we want to keep up the good work so thanks for renewing your support for this year.

Best regards,

María and Tomás– Cimientos Graduates Network Team

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