WHAT HAPPENED
‘I don’t just watch climate change happening’: the young Swedes being paid to make a difference. Participant-led YPS scheme creates green projects while providing summer jobs in country with high youth unemploymentOona Verveld and Clara Vikberg have just secured their first paid summer jobs. While their peers are mostly limited to entry-level positions in retail or fast-food restaurants, the 18-year-olds are some of the first among their generation to have landed a new type of role: young planetary stewards.“Someone came up with the simple idea that, since young people clearly need jobs, why not create them?” says My Sellberg, the project manager and programme lead for regenerative develo This automated newsroom brief is intentionally limited to the verified source material available at intake time. It does not add accusations, figures, quotes, motives, or outcomes that are not present in the original report.
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