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SENAI and SESI of Pernambuco launch pilot project of integral education aimed to reinforce workers' citizenship

The National Industrial Training Service (SENAI) and the Industrial Social Service (SESI) of Pernambuco launched a pilot project of integral education consisting of free courses on secondary education and vocational training for young people between 14 and 16 years of age. If accepted at the combined selection process, the candidate will be able to register at secondary school, in one of the SESI-PE Activity Centres, and at one technical course offered by SENAI, thus staying one period at SENAI, and another period at SESI. A total of 560 vacancies are available, both for secondary school and vocational training.

In November, SENAI and SESI made a presentation for enterprises that contribute to the pilot project System of integral education - Secondary School and Vocational Training (Emep). Companies such as Correios, Brilux, Embratel, Vicunha, Coca-Cola, Santista Têxtil, Musashi and Companhia Industrial de Vidros (CIV) attended the event. The initiative promoted the presentation of the activity and provided an incentive for enterprises to encourage their staff's children to participate in the selection for Emep.

Embratel's operations manager, Macson Rodrigues, observed that the initiative arrived at a good time. "This programme gives teenagers the chance to get a more profitable job for them and their families, in addition to its contribution to the State's technological development ", he declared.

According to SESI-PE's superintendent, Ernane Aguiar, and SENAI's regional director, Antônio Carlos Maranhão, Emep --also called Workers Citizenship Project-- is focused on the citizenship concept, striving for an education which fosters human beings to think, feel, act and, primarily, to transform their own social environment.

The initiative is also intended to prepare young people for their first job. Youth trained by SENAI-PE, for example, are showing a good employment index in the labour market. 82.1 per cent of the students finishing the first 2002 semester have been employed, according to the Permanent Monitoring Graduation System (SAPES).

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