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The province presented the new Opportunity Programme in Colombia

It was in the context of the III Latin American and Caribbean Biennial of Childhoods and Youths, which was carried out under the slogan "Inequalities, challenges to democracies, memories and re-existences".

The Ministry of Social Development, through the New Opportunity Programme, participated in Colombia of the III Latin American and Caribbean Biennial of Childhoods and Youths, where the programme leaders presented the public initiative applied in Santa Fe.

Under the slogan "Inequalities, challenges to democracies, memories and re-existences", the meeting was held at the University of Manizales, where Santa Fe officials shared their experience with representatives from other countries and addressed the various social tools used in the region.

Luciano Vigoni, provincial director of New Opportunity Programme, said, "The most important thing of the meeting was the exchange of experiences on how to address the situations of violence that young people go through."

"Knowing other experiences transcends the frontier of thinking this programme in the solitude of a province; it allows to anchor it within the processes of discussion and reflection with cities, provinces and municipalities that live similar processes at their local juncture," he stressed.

"It is a pride to bear the flag of a programme whose heart is the human bond, the transformation and the joint construction of a new reality. The new opportunity is useful for acquiring labour and social insertion tools, fundamentally, to generate spaces for exchange and reflection," concluded the director.

PARTICIPATION
In representation of Santa Fe, also participated the provincial director of Social Orientation -Region 3, Nicolás Zanón.

The meeting was organized considering diverse priorities that brought into discussion all those works promoted by different countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, around different social policies.

Santa Fe participated in the meetings related to Peacebuilding and Children and Youth Coexistence, Scenarios for Human Development and Education, and Process of Leadership and Participation.

LATIN AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN BIENNIAL OF CHILDHOODS AND YOUTHS
It aims to generate a space for exchange and convergence between the public and private sectors, foundations, organizations and institutions that contribute to children and youth, as well as to encourage the creation of networks and alliances of common interest through workshops, conferences, and panels.

The organization is made up of a scientific committee composed of intellectuals and professionals from different disciplines in different Latin American and Caribbean countries. Among the organizing institutions, more than 30 from the whole region, are the Latin American Council of Social Sciences, UNICEF, Flacso, the University of Buenos Aires, the Ibero-American Network of Postgraduate Studies in Childhood and Youth, RedINJU, the University of San Martín, and the University of Manizales, among others.

NEW OPPORTUNITY
It is a programme aimed at young people between 14 and 30 years old in a situation of high social vulnerability that accompanies them in a pedagogical journey of training and strengthening of social links, with concrete tools so that they can build a life project.

It is a strategy of territorial intervention coordinated by the Social Cabinet and has an integral character, since it proposes an inter-ministerial articulated approach.

The initiative involves young people who do not have access to institutions or the labour market and who do not have the resources or incentives to go back to school or reintegrate into the productive system.

The working groups are trained in multiple trades of different areas such as blacksmithing, carpentry, masonry, mechanics, sewing, electricity, refrigeration, bakery, serigraphy, hairdressing, photography and video; and is connected to Opportunity Nexus, which enables the entry of young people who have participated in the New Opportunity programme, to carry out concrete labour practices.

This year, the programme reaches more than 11,000 young people throughout the province.

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