People’s intelligence, skills and effort are the key resource of any society. Yet often that resource is wasted: people have no access to education, or are marginalised to the edges of society, or have skills which have become outdated within the new economy. WYG International is working to combat each of these.

In many countries we are developing the interface between training, skills and work. For example, in Poland we are the largest provider of vocational training, utilising European and Polish national funds.

Our focus is people who are, or who are likely to become, unemployed as the economy modernises: young people whose formal education has not properly prepared them for work, women who have left work o become mothers or carers and want to work again, and particular ‘difficult to employ’ groups. This work is generally undertaken with the Public Employment Services, and in several countries WYG International has helped to modernise those services.

Sometimes groups in society receive only inferior education, or education that does not recognise their particular cultural or ethnic heritage. Widely across Europe, Roma communities have been victims of such discrimination. WYG International's work to help combat social exclusion in Romania has focused particularly on the special needs of Roma children.