Where: Mexico
Solutions: Green jobs, Climate adaptation and resilience, Youth
The Haitelmex Foundation has developed a program on the social and professional inclusion of youth and migrants in green jobs, for a green economy. This initiative is known as the Project of Social Reintegration of Young People and Migrants, on Green Employment, for a Green Economy.
Their objectives are to empower the youth, migrants, and organizations as trainers to provide better services to communities in companies, schools, residential areas, factories, departments, among other places, thus helping to adapt to the effects of climate change. Offering ecological paint services, protection and restoration of ecosystems through clean technologies, they hope to reduce gas emissions by 50% by 2030 and contribute to adaptation on the effects of climate change. The Haitelmex Foundation also helps foreigners from Haiti send a kilo of rice to their country and they carry out a short-stay transitional exchange program at the social promoter level in terms of work and training.
This project has been successful in reaching 250,000 people so far. The foundation's main goal is to work on a green employment program to better have a green economy, through a plan for clean technologies, environmental services in the have been divided into three phases:
- First phase: Contribute to adaptation to the effects of climate change
- Second phase: Clean technologies and environmental services in job creation for young people and migrants
- Third Phase: Professional ecological paints for young people in vulnerable situations.
Photo provided by Haitelmex Foundation
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