Caracas, June 15 (RHC-teleSUR)-- Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has launched the Chamba Juvenil plan, with the objective of locating and helping to place unemployed young people into productive work and educational systems.

Volunteers will hold sessions in the street in order to reach out to and find youth who are in need of work and/or education. The program is intended to give young people the opportunity to acquire meaningful skills and education, in order to apply them to projects or employment, targeting those who are most affected by the ongoing economic crisis in Venezuela.

Thursday, the Venezuelan president also launches the Somos Venezuela movement, which will provide pensions and student scholarships and provide a mechanism for addressing the needs of the most vulnerable sectors of the population, based on an assessment carried out by over 66,000 volunteers.

Maduro has called it a “qualitative leap in the fight against poverty, needs and in the fight for social happiness, for social equality. It is a new stage of social awakening of the Bolivarian Revolution.”