Help for Burgenland's youth: Apprenticeship funds strengthen training opportunities!

Help for Burgenland's youth: Apprenticeship funds strengthen training opportunities!

Eisenstadt, Österreich - In Eisenstadt, the "Bishop Agidius Apprentice Fund" causes a sensation and supports Burgenland young people in their training. This fund, founded by Bishop Aegidius Zsifkovics since its foundation in 2020, offers fast and unbureaucratic help to reduce financial hurdles and thus enable young people to make a successful professional future. The director of the Mattersburg vocational school, Thomas Plank, emphasized that the support was "invaluable" to ensure that nobody had to stop their training due to financial difficulties. This fund has already contributed to the fact that four new laptops for students were purchased in Mattersburg so that they can easily do their school tasks. As kathpress.at , trustees at the vocational schools are contact persons for apprentices and training companies who need support.

new scholarships and living options

In order to make the educational path easier for young people, the Diocese of Eisenstadt works in cooperation with Caritas on a scholarship that is intended to help financially weak families to visit their children. "Many talented children cannot attend a higher school due to financial restrictions," said Caritas director Melanie Balaskovics. The aim of this scholarship is to cover the school fees for the diocese high school. In addition to financial support, the diocese also offers 27 modern small apartments for commuters, apprentices and students in the Martinushaus in Vienna to offer young people affordable housing during their training. The Caritas Community Foundation in the Diocese of Münster, which has joined the initiative for transparent civil society, also invested around 189,000 euros in various projects in 2023 to support people in need, and thus shows how important social responsibility is, such as caritas-bistum-muenster.de illustrates.