Mission Vuelvan Caras' goal is to give vocational training to people who are currently unemployed. It has incorporated a total of 717,509 participants into productive activities. Now, it also involves the creation of social companies.

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Mission Vuelvan Caras is a program that promotes the creative drive of the people through their protagonist participation in the production of goods and services. Thus, the Bolivarian Government bolsters a new development model, whose benefit is encouraging national production (...)

A Mission for "Lanceros"

On March 12, 2004, Mission Vuelvan Caras was launched in order to incorporate Venezuelan participants as the protagonists of a fight for the economic transformation required by the country through the inclusion and exaltation of what is ours.

The goal is to put forth a series of strategic guidelines allowing for:

• Transforming, through work, the creating potential of the people into popular power.
• Articulating the educative process with the productive process in order to increase jobs, guide the training of human resources and guaranteeing the participation of every citizen in the production of goods and services.
• Guiding the efforts towards economic activities with greater job- and potential-generating capacity, especially in the agricultural, tourism and construction fields.
• Promoting the productive encouragement of communities in poverty situation.
• Guiding the productive model towards social economy, by giving priority to the creation of cooperatives and other associative forms of economic participation.
• Placing jobs in the middle of the economic and social policy at national, regional and local levels.
• Bolstering new institutions to develop job- and social security-promotion policies.

In order to achieve these goals, the Bolivarian Government includes an array of social program or Battle Fronts aimed at reactivating the Venezuelan economy.

Agricultural Fronts

It is aimed at achieving the reactivation of the country's agricultural activities. It includes the participation of agricultural Endogenous Development Centers. It is based on low-scale agriculture, and the design of an Especial Sowing Plan carried out by the Ministry of Popular Power for Agriculture and Lands.

Tourism Front

Venezuela's awesome geographic landscapes can turn Venezuela into the favorite destination of domestic and foreign tourists. The Tourism Front gathers Endogenous Development Centers located in ecosystems and natural places.

Industrial Front

Endogenous Development Centers must turn into real industrial platforms in order to transform raw material into elaborated products aimed at domestic consumption and exportation. In this sense, this Front's main goal is the recovery of state-owned industries that were abandoned.

Infrastructure Front

Its goal is to recover cities as spaces fit to live, together with popular organizations aimed at rescuing road, electricity, educative, health and agricultural infrastructures, among others.

Figures

Up to March 2, 2007, Mission Vuelvan Caras has incorporated 717,509 participants into the productive activity. They all comprised 7,917 cooperatives. The Venezuela Government has invested about US $ 547 million, allocated in the form of credits to these workers.

Social Impact

Mission Vuelvan Caras, and its sustainable endogenous development model, has promoted that citizens turn into protagonists of the local, regional and nation transformation process, especially those Venezuelans that were excluded from work and economic participation. The creation of social companies such as cooperatives and producer associations has been put in motion, together with a relation and shared responsibility with the government.

It is very important for the organized community to play the role of Social Comptroller and guarantee that the Government's officers do their duties in order to denounce irregularities regarding public management.

The endogenous development model has to 'diversify production', so the organized communities share the little tasks involved in a huge process in order to create production spaces where everybody can participate and achieve the final goal by following principles such as cooperation and solidarity".