P.R. Laws tit. 18, § 1412
It is the public policy of the Government of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico to establish the Administration for Future Workers and Entrepreneurs Training, which shall provide training and personal development opportunities for the participants by means of the creation of opportunities for study. The Administration shall be governed by two basic program guidelines. First, it shall organize and develop a broad and innovative character-building and technical-vocational training activities program for the comprehensive development of economically disadvantaged youths and/or participants who, from workshops, camping, farms or other study, work and services operation centers or campuses, prepare said youths both for self-employment by means of small businesses and cooperatives and for productive remunerative work in public and private entities and businesses. The Administration shall develop education, training, work and services activities in diverse fields of human endeavor to create new sources of employment in manufacturing, agriculture, commerce, construction, maintenance and repair services, tourism, and any other phase of economic activity.
In the second place, it shall develop an extensive program of works, services and community action programs by the participants, where they will contribute with their efforts and work to solve problems and abate the needs of the community in general, and specifically, of the most needy groups, in order to obtain work experience, and an awareness of their civic, personal and social responsibility. The resources and efforts of other government or civic entities, including those that are non-profit in nature, shall be incorporated to such ends.
In recognition of the overwhelming need to encourage, through the creation of educational, training, work and personal development opportunities for young, socially-disadvantaged persons and/or participants, it is hereby established as a guiding objective of the Administration, that, upon concluding their training and service, the participants shall have developed the attitudes, skills and initiatives that will enable them to create opportunities aggressively, whether as self-employed, or through the organization of small businesses or cooperatives of goods and services.
History —June 23, 1985, No. 1, p. 595, § 2; Aug. 6, 1999, No. 224, § 4; Sept. 3, 2003, No. 259, § 1.