AN ALTERNATIVE TO MIGRATION FOR FILIPINO YOUTH

Graduates of an MDG-F-supported training course to service computer hardware. Close to 1.5 million young FIlipinos are unemployed, and many migrate to seek better futures. To increase job opportunities and offer young people alternatives to migration, the MDG-F offered training in entrepreneurship, life skills and safe migration to teachers, out of school youth, local partner organizations and thousands of secondary schools. At-risk high school students were given educational subsidies to reduce the drop-out rate.