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Centroid de Los Trabajadores has been given a sum of 2.25 million dollars by the City of Denver for the WorkReady programme.
CBS News reports that the Denver Asylum Seekers Programme aims to assist hundreds of migrants join the area’s workforce legally.
The Mayor of Denver, Mike Johnston had announced thr commencement of the programme last April. It looks to provide migrants with the necessary tools to be successful in the city.
A hope for the future was rekindled in the hearts of migrants at the start of the programme.
The programme was initiated by City of Denver officials to help those families and individuals without support in the US.
By June, the city hopes to have a total of 800 people on a path to legally working and living in the US.
Jon Ewing, a spokesperson for Denver Human Service said, “These are people whose only path for providing for themselves is to scrape by on under the table jobs, try to make it month by month, that’s not what we want for them.”
The tools to success provided by the city include six months of rental assistance, job training, a cell phone, a bus pass, a laptop, food stamps and legal help with their asylum application
