ANJAF has as intervention goals the execution of activities that contribute to promote the social/cultural integration and development of youth but also of all the excluded or at-risk groups, aiming to promote social cohesion.
The target-group for ANJAF’s activities is what we call exposed or at-risk of exclusion groups, i.e., long-term unemployed people, youngsters searching for a first job, ethnic and cultural minorities, impoverished people, single-parent families, women with social integration difficulties.
ANJAF’s intervention philosophy regards professional training as the most adequate tool to promote social and professional integration, according to its goals of combating exclusion and promoting social cohesion.
ANJAF’s philosophy, at this level, is based on the idea that economical development and contemporary societies’ competitiveness imperatives originate certain population clusters, defined by typical social, economical and demographic traits, that find themselves unable to access the opportunities that are available for the majority of the population, namely in the educational field.
A vicious circle is therefore created: social exclusion – non-accessible opportunities – accentuated exclusion, which is intensified by our time’s orientation for fast-paced economical and social change. ANJAF believes that this cycle can only be broken through specific interventions that take into account the features of the populations that these phenomena affect.
Another angle on ANJAF’s intervention philosophy refers to providing young and resourceless groups with a series of cultural and recreational activities that will allow for the playful acquirement of new knowledge, as well as the development of solidarity values.
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