Friday, 01 April 2022 03:12

Mayor of San Bartolomé Perulapía, Ronal Ortiz promotes bilingual youth to work in the U.S.

Written by Evelyn Alas

The mayor of San Bartolomé Perulapía, Ronal Ortiz announced this thursday, march 31, 2022, that they are benefiting a group of more than 15 bilingual young people, who are under contract with temporary work visas in the United States. They are scheduled to travel this coming friday, april 1, 2022, to the state of New Jersey.

One of the initiatives promoted by the Mayor's Office of San Bartolomé Perulapía is the Municipal School of Languages, which was created in february 2020 with "the mission of opening training opportunities aligned to the global demand of bilingual young people for all areas of study and the labor market. It is a project that was born as a personal initiative of the mayor to manage with investors who share the vision of Ronal Ortiz, therefore, fills us with great satisfaction because there are already more than 350 young people who have been part of this educational and social plan, (EMI) that seeks technical training in the English language for subsequent labor intermediation in national and foreign companies ", said the mayor.

Currently, the Municipal Language School has 220 students ranging in age from 7 to 40 years old, teaching 4.5 hours of classes per week to students at the basic and intermediate levels.

Through the Local Economic Development Unit in 2021, 4 young people from the EMI and 6 from labor intermediation were placed, obtaining contracts from companies in the United States with temporary work visas.

Thanks to the alliance with a U.S. company, 7 young people from EMI and 7 young people through advanced labor intermediation have been placed with temporary employment abroad. We are also waiting to confirm a new group of young people who could travel this year.

It should be noted that San Bartolomé Perulapía belongs to the department of Cuscatlán and is bordered to the west by the municipality of San Martín; geographically it is strategic for its population to be employed in companies in the department of San Salvador given its proximity to the capital.

Labor intermediation has transcended with the Local Economic Development Unit, and has been developed with a training process (skilled labor), allowing new job opportunities outside the country, for the benefit of local families.