The Trust for the Americas launched this May 2023 its first program focused on green workforce training. Leveraging on the successful experience of POETA, S4S will provide training and job placement to vulnerable and low-income populations for positions in the water and wastewater management sector in El Paso, Texas, United States, and Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico.
This program seeks to provide vulnerable populations on both sides of the US/Mexico border with the skills that employers require, closing the gap between people who want a stable career. This will also aid the water sector and companies that make intensive use of this resource and urgently need a skilled workforce to operate their facilities.
After two visits to El Paso and Ciudad Juárez by Jorge Márquez Gaspar, Business Development Specialist, and Christopher Barton, project consultant, this program has the financial support of the North American Development Bank – NADBank, Microsoft, and other private companies, including Water House Group. In addition, strategic alliances were established with the Juárez Municipal Water and Sanitation Board, El Paso Water, the Juárez National Chamber of Commerce, and the El Paso Chamber of Commerce, among other organizations.
After two months of recruiting potential participants, this coming August the training of the first cohort of 70 beneficiaries of the program will begin together with Jóvenes Constructores de la Comunidad (JCC), our local partner in Ciudad Juárez, Success Through Technology Education Foundation (STTE) and Western Tech, our local partners in El Paso.
Soon we will bring more news about this program that seeks to promote the sustainable development of this binational region.
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