The Chamber of Commerce of Lanzarote and La Graciosa has played a leading role in the celebration of the tenth anniversary of the Youth Talent program, an event organized yesterday in Madrid by the Chamber of Spain and presided over by the queen, doña Letizia.
During the meeting, which served to take stock of a decade promoting youth employability, two young people from our island shone as national role models of overcoming, effort, and inclusion.
Melody Armas and Idir Tiguit were selected from among the participants of the entire network of territorial chambers to represent the real impact of this program. Both are the tangible example of the success of this initiative, as they are currently working and forging their professional futures, thus fulfilling the main objective of this insertion itinerary.
The event left moments of great emotion, starring the talent of our land. Melody Armas, young artist from Lanzarote who boosted her career through the tattoo course of the Youth Talent program in Lanzarote, showed her art live by creating a portrait that she personally delivered to the queen.
For his part, Idir Tiguit highlighted the integrating dimension of the program; after arriving on the island as an unaccompanied minor, he trained at the Chamber and, after his time in the program, he worked as translator in the Spanish course for foreigners of the entity itself.
The vice-president of the Chamber of Commerce of Lanzarote and La Graciosa, Carmen Martinón, who accompanied the young people throughout the day together with the program coordinator on the island, Patricia Brandon, highlighted the importance of this milestone: "Accompanying Melody and Idir today has been an immense pride. Their stories demonstrate that the program works: today both are working and contributing their talent to our society. At the Chamber we work so that training always translates into real employment," she pointed out.
The celebration of this tenth anniversary at a national level coincides with a decade of uninterrupted commitment in the island sphere. The Chamber of Commerce of Lanzarote and La Graciosa has been executing the Youth Talent program in its demarcation for ten years, a sustained effort thanks to the co-financing of the Cabildo de Lanzarote, which backed this project from the very beginning.
In this period, the program, also co-financed by the European Social Fund Plus, has consolidated itself as the key tool to combat youth unemployment in the islands, offering training specifically designed to cover the real demands of local companies and ensuring that young talent stays in our land.