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Apprenticeship
Programme:
From Hustling To Holding Down a Nine To Five 
And while that's one side of
street life - tonight we also have the
flip side: youths who are trying to get off the corner and into a nine
to five job.
65 of them are part of a government funded apprenticeship programme - and today they graduated from the first phase - which is a two week orientation to the expectations of the world of work. 
It's like a crash course in
attitude adjustment - and we found
out how it works:..
Dianne Finnegan, Apprenticeship Programme "We had a two weeks orientation and that is basically to prepare them for entering into the work place. So we did sessions on job ethics, domestic violence, all the issues that would affect them within their work place. On Monday they will each be place with an employer and they start their journey for 6 months. We are hoping that throughout those 6 months that employer would see their potential, they would manifest - they need to transform their lives and then remain employed as a full time at each of those businesses." 
Michael Young knows that path
well - he is one of the
programme's proudest successes:
Michael Young, Employed As A Mechanic "Well for me it basically brings my whole life in order because I didn't appreciate this working thing at all. Due to the program - it tells you what the importance of work is and the importance of what you need in life and what you expect to get out of life." Jules Vasquez "So what were you doing before?" 
Michael Young, Employed As
A Mechanic
"I can't speak about it like that. All I can say is that I was doing things that I wasn't supposed to do." Jules Vasquez "So now you work at Belize Diesel?" Michael Young, Employed As A Mechanic "I work at Belize Diesel full time from Monday to Friday and fortunately one to two times on Saturdays. But apart from that everything is good, it's a really good job and I really enjoy it. I make a lot of money and everything is good." Jules Vasquez "Did you know anything about mechanic before you went to work there?" 
Michael Young, Employed As
A Mechanic
"Apart from how a car looks and drives, no. I didn't know anything at all." Jules Vasquez "And now you are a full time staff?" Michael Young, Employed As A Mechanic "Now I am a full time worker. I am working by myself. The last time they brought in a trainee, they actually put him under me due to that I have excelled and I can work by myself." And that kind of surpassing success is what these graduates are hoping for. 
Sherwin Kerr, Wants to be electrician KOLBE
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Eighty three prison inmates who
took part in the Kolbe Foundation’s
Addiction Rehabilitation programme today graduated from that
institution’s seventeenth such course. During a heavy downpour at the
event, recovering addict, Gregory Dorrell, told his fellow inmates what
many of them already know – that street life has severe consequences.
Gregory Dorrell – Prison inmate “Over the years I have experienced extreme evil and many close calls but I didn’t care, alcohol, marijuana and peer pressure kept me numb to the facts of living in denial. Nevertheless I was loving it, I spent my teenage years in euphoria. In 1996 I got on the plane to Los Angeles, when I arrived I was introduced to some Mexican drug lords by my street colleagues and once again my life took another huge step for the worse. Immediately I left selling on the street corners to try to get large quantities of marijuana from the west coast to the east coast, skilfully manoeuvring round high profile criminals along with the FBI, DEA, ATF, US Marshals, State troopers, local police and a host of so called friends. I decided to try some of what my friend was smoking and being very depressed I was hooked right then and there. I started spending carelessly without conscience or remorse, this money is mine I told myself I do as I please, not realizing that I was up against the enormous power of my own distorted thinking. I smoked up over $40,000.00 in just over two months shortly after my incarceration career started here in Belize. I would steal any and everything to support my new found habit. Since coming through this addiction rehabilitation center, I realize clearly that God’s grace I am extremely fortunate. So here I am ladies and gentlemen, deeply humbled and ready to do whatever it takes for a meaningful transition and a successful recovery.” Among today’s graduates, eighteen female inmates successfully completed the programme. LoveFM NOTICE
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