Youth Employment Program to Help Low-Income Households

Youth employment program to help low-income households

The province is providing additional funding for youth employment support programs to assist those from low-income households.

This year, 5,686 young people competed in 4,096 open-ended vagas in 15 programmes run by the Regional Directorate of Youth (DRJ), today the Regional Secretariat of Inclusion, Work and Youth. Among the most sought-out are the ‘Young in Training’, which aims to promote the occupation of free time through training activities, with 2,683 candidates, and the ‘Stagies of Verão’ with 1,241 candidates. This afternoon, during a visit to the Regional Dire…