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Inter American Development Bank recently approved a $20 million loan to El Salvador targeted at helping young workers between the ages of 16 and 29.
The project will train 6,000 youths for jobs for which they would not otherwise be qualified. One innovative project component will finance training some 1,600 young entrepreneurs in the development of business ideas. The youths with the best business plans will receive project backing to establish their own microenterprises. The project will also provide assistance to participating mothers for the care of their young children.
In addition, the project will finance training for workers in more than 1,300 micro- and small-scale enterprises. In addition, the project will benefit more than 15,500 businesses across the country through the promotion of good practices to prevent accidents in the workplace.
Sounds like a great program that might help with both the short- and long-term needs of dealing with the country's gang tensions.
