The Fundação de Atenção Integra Juvenil (Fudainil) asked businessmen and the Portuguese community in Venezuela to help provide training and jobs for young Portuguese of Venezuelan origin, keeping them off the streets and away from drugs.
“I want to ask the Portuguese community to help us support young people who are on the streets, who are unemployed and who have to work to feed their families,” the president of Fundainil told Lusa.
Ana Sánchez Mora, a teacher and former director of the Venezuelan Ministry of Education, said that “there are a lot of unemployed people and children on the streets” and that it is necessary to “educate them.”
According to the person in charge, she emphasized that Fundainil has several projects that it wants to implement in the near future in the fields of baking and confectionery, mechanics and even teaching young people how to create filters at home to convert their own water into drinking water. .
Ana Sánchez also explained that one of the projects involves the production of bars and liquid soap, but regretted the lack of financial resources to move forward.
“The current situation is unemployment. That’s why there is a lot of crime. But we are trying to attract these young people, train them, give them internships in companies where they can get closer to the labor market. we did,” he said.
He cited 100-hour internships at companies such as tire maker Good Year and Toyota as examples of successful programs, where young people then work and have the opportunity to further their education.
Regarding Fundainil, he explained that it was created in 1990 and has been dedicated to “prevention and protection of boys and adolescents, families, schools and communities” for 34 years.
“We are very interested in the family, in our children, in health. For us, education is extremely important because when children study, they prepare for the future and for a safe and healthy life, because where there is work, there is a way of life,” he emphasized.
On the other hand, he explained that Fundainil launched programs that in the past “were not accepted by Venezuelan society” or communities.
“In Venezuela, we have been pioneers in drug prevention, sexual and reproductive health, early teenage pregnancy and family planning,” he explained.
According to Ana Sánchez, it was through the work of Fundainil that Venezuela pioneered the implementation of a sexual and reproductive health prevention program in schools, remembering that topics such as early pregnancy and menstrual cycles were taboo for teachers.
“We managed to train a large number of young people who were unemployed and did not study at all. There were a lot of crimes related to unemployment, especially among young people,” he said.
Headquartered in Caracas and present in 24 states of Venezuela, Fundainil is known for its work in the social and labor integration of at-risk youth and deserters from the Venezuelan education system.
Drug use, sexual and reproductive health, domestic and school violence, and problems at work are just some of the areas it covers.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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