According to the minister, these efforts are part of the Policy for the Comprehensive Care of Children, Adolescents and Youth in Cuba, approved last July in the National Assembly of People’s Power.

In statements to the press after a meeting led by President Miguel Díaz-Canel to review the initiative, Marta Elena Feitó pointed out that the search for transformation, rather than welfare, predominates in the approach of such actions.

She highlighted that more than 60 percent of the people who accessed job offers last year were young, a trend that, she said, also marked the participation in training courses, adding that survey carried out by the University Student Federation in Higher Education institutions, aimed at identifying young people with families in vulnerable situations, and the rescue of those who have abandoned their studies.

Feitó then commented that the strategy must be aimed at carrying out different actions to incorporate this force into jobs associated with their profiles and thus take advantage of their talent and training in higher-skilled jobs.

She pointed out that it is also a priority to address the issue of young people in informal jobs, where there is not always all the protection and guarantees for the exercise of the work they do, an item which requires continuing to delve deeper into this issue that also includes employers.

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