Argentina inaugurates employment programme for young people

 The Argentine Government has inaugurated a training programme for young people, aiming to give them equal access to jobs in the software and related sectors.

The programme inaugurated on Monday, planned to train 60,000 young people by the end of the year.

This is according to Argentina’s President Alberto Fernandez in a statement released on Tuesday.

“Young people have historically been the protagonists of change in Argentina.

“The project aims to train and provide jobs for them in an Argentina full of potential.

“Various industries of the knowledge economy, such as software and computer systems, video games, audiovisual production and post-production, directly and indirectly employed 450,000 people and have the potential to create another 100,000 jobs,’’ the statement said.