🍕 'That started the ball rolling and the rest is history.' 🍕 How a training course changed Giuseppe Fallone's life 👇
BBC News NI south-east reporterBut a newspaper advertisement for a training course in Newry changed that.
"Before I left school I was thinking of becoming a chef but then, at the last minute I decided I was going to be an electrician. That quickly changed when I saw the ad for an apprentice baker," he said.He was among the many young people often referred to as NEETs - those who are Not in Education, Employment or Training.
It's estimated there are currently about 18,000 such young people in Northern Ireland - which represents 8% of young men and 10% of young women.Across Northern Ireland, there are a range of schemes aimed at helping some of these young people find focus."It used to be very heavily focussed on the peace and reconciliation side of things," said Rachel Duffy from the group.
"There's a lot of pressure on young people right now. They were isolated for so long, everything was online. "We are now witnessing the after-effects. They are coming in now and they don't know how to communicate with one another. The challenges now are bigger and bolder."Regener8 programme coordinator Maeve Murphy agrees."A lot of the young people we work with come from quite difficult backgrounds. It could be drug and alcohol misuse or mental health issues. A lot of them have dropped out of school early with no qualifications.
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