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EDUCATION

Providing Central American youth with hope.

Through RISE, youth are empowered with education, job training, and meaningful employment. For work. For life.

World Vision’s RISE (Reaching Independence through Support and Empowerment) programs are designed to help young people gain the skills, training, and experience necessary to succeed both in life and in the workforce. They include various forms of training, education, scholarships, mentorship, internships, and more, all aimed at preparing youth for entrepreneurship and/or meaningful employment.

2030 GOAL

Empower 60,000 youth from the highest-risk areas of the Northern Triangle with agency, opportunity, and workforce training that will enable them to break out of poverty.

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The need

Youth in Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador (known as the Northern Triangle) face an uphill struggle to find good, safe jobs.

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For many youth living in the Northern Triangle, a life of blessing seems impossible.
  • Poverty, violence, and a lack of opportunity have defined their lives, but we believe there is hope: hope for the youth, their families, and their communities. The region is among the poorest in the Western Hemisphere.

  • According to the World Bank, more than 1 in 4 youth ages 15 to 24 in Honduras are neither going to school nor working.

  • Homicide accounts for roughly 1 in 10 deaths among children and teens ages 10 to 19 in Latin America and the Caribbean. This is four times higher than the global average.
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Our response

World Vision’s RISE models are designed to help young people gain the skills, training, and experience necessary to succeed both in life and in the workforce. They include various forms of training, education, scholarships, mentorship, internships, and more, all aimed at preparing youth for entrepreneurship and/or meaningful employment.
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At its core, RISE seeks to equip young people with the skills, training, and experience needed to thrive in both life and the workforce.
  • Youth Ready - Targeting 11,000 participants, Youth Ready equips youth with skills critical for success at work and in life. Participants choose one of three pathways: Education, Entrepreneurship, or Employment.

  • Excellence Program - This year we’ll pilot the “Excellence Program,” which will identify 400 Youth Ready graduates who have demonstrated exceptional potential to take their work to the next level, whether through employment or entrepreneurship.

  • Teen Ready - Focused on in-school adolescents aged 12-17, Teen Ready aims to prevent dropout rates and increase motivation for learning through engaging activities such as art, sports, science, and technology.

Our impact

Our approach works. A Honduras Youth Ready study revealed a remarkable increase in employment, more than doubling from 29% at the start of the program to 63% two years post-graduation.
 
When you support RISE programs, you give vulnerable youth options other than migration by empowering self-confidence and providing meaningful employment.
 
We’re serious about measuring impact and improving our work. A study done by Montclair State University — a top research university in New Jersey — found that young people who participated in Youth Ready in Honduras increased their scores in communication, critical reflection, perseverance, agency, and hope.
 
With your partnership, see the impact we’re making:
13,000 youth

More than 13,000 youth will select a pathway (education, entrepreneurship or employment) and complete the Youth Ready curriculum toward employment opportunities.

350 partnerships
We have partnerships with more than 350 companies supporting RISE graduates.
68 churches

68 partner churches who help implement RISE programs.

Read our most recent progress report.

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See the people and places whose lives are being transformed in the name of Jesus Christ. Watch videos to learn more about our work.

Our partners

We are blessed to partner with hundreds of Christian philanthropists and couldn’t do this work without them. And we’re able to reach more people because of our highly collaborative local and global partnerships within private and public sectors.

 

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Taylor Rhodes

CEO of Applied Systems and donor partner, Illnois 

"For me, that’s what RISE is all about: they (youth) are being equipped with skills so that they can be ready to enter the workforce. World Vision is partnering with companies that hire our RISE graduates into their companies, and that’s a story of transformation. Today, what they see is that the Lord has a plan for them to not only care for their families but to also be leaders in their communities."

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