This would normally disqualify them from typical vocational or job-training programs, but not from Capacita o Solid ria. So far more than 15,000 young adults, over half of them women, have benefitted from over 100 types of professional courses including gardening, surfboard manufacturing, video production and graphic arts. Capacita o Solid ria does not offer training itself. Instead, it solicits bids from PTOs that compete for contracts to offer courses. The PTOs are mostly nongovernmental organizations, unions, community associations, and small businesses that have a proven track record in training urban youth and promoting partnership with the private sector.
Courses cover dozens of areas.
Along with those mentioned above, participants can acquire skills necessary to work as photographers, electricians, dental assistants, mechanics, heavy equipment operators, seamstresses, bakers, hairdressers and musical instrument makers. In addition to providing job placement services, the Capacita o Solid ria program explicitly encourages its beneficiaries to either return or remain in school to complete their formal education requirements. Many participants see the income-generating potential of their new job skills only as a first step. I'll be able to sew part-time and study at night. Others appreciate the chance to simply broaden their horizons.