In Pointe-a-Pitre
In an island where school dropouts, illiteracy and youth unemployment are legion, everything remains to be done to offer a future to the youth of Guadeloupe.
Young people leave the island and, despite catch-up policies, find it difficult to return "to the peyi".
On a forest path in the tropical forest of Guadeloupe, mini diggers have been working for several days to maintain the ditches.
It is the young people of the adapted military service regiment (RSMA) who officiate here, in a life-size project with the National Forestry Office.
“I am the porpoise Steve and I am training as a machine operator.
I'm sure to have job opportunities with this training
,” rejoices the 21-year-old young man, who does not have the baccalaureate.
“You can go to school, of course, but you have to have a job,”
he says, looking focused, at the controls of his mini excavator.
Like him, each year, 600 to 800 young people go through the RSMA, one of the many organizations…
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