The head of government of Mexico City (CDMX), Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, announced that the administration of Movimiento Regeneración Nacional (Morena) will search for 15,000 young people “house by house” throughout the Republic to enroll them in the Youth Building the Future program.
In giving the starting flag of the “Peacebuilding” strategy at the national level, the capital's president indicated that the objective of visiting house to house is to prevent young people from being recruited by organized crime and give them an educational and employment opportunity.
It also noted that it seeks to demonstrate that crime rates and social backwardness can be reduced, with better opportunities for young people.
“We have situations of insecurity in the city and who causes them? Many times young people who had no choice, that the only option they were given was the band. What does this program, which today is strengthened by what the president (Andrés Manuel López Obrados) gives us, does with 15,000 new young people? To give a young man a choice of life, to a young woman; I think there is nothing more beautiful than that,” he said.
According to the authorities, the program will deploy dozens of young people in colonies to touch house to house to offer social programs to people aged 18 to 29 age in 50 municipalities with the greatest social backwardness or where there are higher crime rates.
For his part, the head of the program, Marath Baruch Bolaños López, explained that to facilitate integration into employment, education and scholarship programs, mobile offices will also be installed in parks or public squares of mayors and municipalities with greater social backwardness.
He indicated that the modules will be located in the mayors of Gustavo A. Madero and Iztapalapa, in Mexico City, as well as in Tijuana, Baja California; Benito Juárez, Quintana Roo and Acapulco, Guerrero.
“That the young people who most require them should not be left without the opportunity to have an instrument such as the Youth Building the Future program, which includes two elements: a training grant, month by month, for five thousand 258 pesos; and, in addition, their registration in the IMSS (Mexican Social Security Institute) so that, with they can receive medical services,” he said.
For her part, the head of the Ministry of Security and Citizen Protection, Rosa Icela Rodríguez, stated that by addressing issues of work and education, the “breeding ground for cells that engage young people” is removed.
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