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l for tender<br />
The scholarships cover the monthly cost of the training,<br />
the final examination, and transport costs to and from school.<br />
The courses are offered in the following subject areas: PC user<br />
skills, repair and maintenance of window air-conditioning<br />
systems, car mechanics and construction skills. The lessons<br />
are held during the day, in the evening, or on Saturdays.<br />
The project will last for a maximum period of two years and<br />
will be implemented in two separate phases. The first phase<br />
will take up the first year and will be devoted to giving the<br />
young people the necessary technical training. The second<br />
phase is meant to prepare the most talented graduates from<br />
the first year's training to be self employed. Subsidies will be<br />
granted to help them set up small businesses of their own.<br />
They will be taught the necessary skills needed to start a<br />
business or to manage a small enterprise in their chosen field.<br />
It is also planned to set up a kind of 'job placement service',<br />
whose role will be to find jobs for those who have completed<br />
the first year of training.<br />
Alvaro Murilla Rocha, ISCOD representative in Nicaragua,<br />
pointed out that in addition to the professional training given<br />
The Spanish Ana Rodríguez and representatives of the district visiting the scholarship holders<br />
Nicaragua<br />
for 350 young people in the Foundation's training centre in Managua<br />
to the young people, there will also be seminars and workshops<br />
available on such subjects as legal regulations, leadership<br />
and management, sexuality and health, and event organisation.<br />
These seminars will be held at weekends and coordinated<br />
and managed by the APC. The aim will be to give participants<br />
practical tips and advice to prepare them for the challenges<br />
of daily life and their personal and social development.<br />
According to reactions from those responsible in the three<br />
local authorities - Patricia Sánchez from the district of Mirna<br />
Ugarte, Ernestina Balladares from Edgard Munguía and Filiberto<br />
Rizo from Ciudad Sandino - the project will provide an<br />
opportunity to improve the long-term standards of living of the<br />
local people and to alleviate the effects of poverty that afflict<br />
a large percentage of the population in the districts concerned.<br />
Once they have acquired specific skills, and with support<br />
from their families and local authorities, 350 young people<br />
will then have an opportunity to find a job at a later stage.<br />
Francisco Rios, who lives in the Mirna Ugarte district and<br />
who has been awarded a grant for the training course on PC<br />
user skills, and Juana Varela, both expressed their delight<br />
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