The Youth Training and Improvement Program, carried out by the Provincial Directorate of Education, currently benefits 1,485 Guantanamo young people, who increase their knowledge to access better job opportunities.
Mariesky González Rodríguez, specialist of the Department of Youth and Adults in the leading institution of the process, informed that the initiative favors the reincorporation to the study of Guantanamo youngsters under 18 and 35 years old and allows them to reach the 12th grade, as well as aspire to pursue university degrees.
The courses are taught in all the basic secondary schools of the province, in the afternoon-evening hours, where they receive classes and, if they wish, they can access the higher education entrance exams.
González Rodríguez added that the project offers elective courses that serve for the comprehensive training of students accordingly the skills that these times demand.
For those interested in the Training and Improvement Program, registration opens every October, just then the process of surveying, dissemination, diagnosis and registration is carried out, which finally concludes on February 6 when teaching begins, methodologically advised by the University of Guantanamo.
The program has an intersectoral approach, since it has the support of social workers, representatives of Public Health, the Committees for the Defense of the Revolution, the Federation of Cuban Women, Culture, the National Revolutionary Police and the Young Communist League.
