22 minutes of vocational training for a young person in Honduras

Honduras is the second poorest country in Central America and offers few prospects for its relatively young population. Up to 60 percent of the population lives in poverty, and unemployment is over 40 percent. Access to education is very limited in rural areas, especially after six years of primary school. There are many reasons for the difficult living conditions there: Firstly, the years of privatization of public infrastructure have been criticized. This primarily benefits the elite and large companies in the energy and mining sectors. In addition, the government has been accused of corruption and electoral fraud for years. Trade agreements ensure that the market in Honduras is flooded with subsidized products from North America. Products such as corn, rice and beans, which are also grown in Honduras, are usually imported because this is much cheaper. The victims are farmers, who can then no longer sell their products (Deutschlandfunk, 2019).

This leads to poverty-stricken migration to the capital region. Families often break up under these circumstances, and many children are left to fend for themselves. In addition, every year hundreds of children and young people set off for the USA in search of a supposedly better future - on one of the most dangerous migration routes in the world. Rural communities in particular suffer from a very low level of education and mass emigration. The precarious conditions on the ground are cemented.