This plan indicates the measures to be adopted in various areas such as education, employment, hunger and poverty, health, environment, drug abuse, juvenile delinquency, leisure-time activities, girls and young women, as well as the full and effective participation of youth in the life of society and in decisionmaking (United Nations, 1995). Education develops the skills of children and young people, preparing them for an ever-changing world. However, this development must have as a corollary the existence of opportunities to use the skills, mainly —but not exclusively— in the world of work. It is through participation in work that one can unleash creative and innovative potential, live a full life, participate in the countless areas of social life, achieve material and symbolic well-being, be a responsible member of society and thus sever the chains of poverty replication that today afflict our societies (ECLAC/OIJ, 2008).