Reindeer herders will help indigenous youth to move up the career ladder

Starting with the new academic year, the Yamal Union of Reindeer Herders together with the regional branch of the all-Russian council of local self-government will launch the pilot project under the title “Mentorship for future leaders”.

This information was given to a correspondent of the news agency “Sever-Press” by the chairman of the board of the Union, the head of the family community of indigenous ethnic minorities of the North “Syadey-Yakhinskaya” Stepan Vanuito. According to him, the project is aimed at the first-year students of Yamal polar agro-economic technical school from indigenous ethnic minorities of the North. The public organization plans to take patronage over several students, who expressed such a desire, and at suggestion of the administration of the technical school.

Within the project it is planned to teach them to office work, skills of reception of citizens with the possibility to participate in law-making activity, preparation of business plans. The Yamal Union of Reindeer Herders intends to involve the students into their actions and projects, public life of the Autonomous Okrug in order they would receive new knowledge, skills of public speaking, forming of their leadership qualities. According to Stepan Vanuito, work with the first-year students will be conducted till graduation from the educational institution with further prospect of joining to non-commercial organizations and the opportunity of job placement.

“I hope that the project will help young people to find job. Today mentorship in the whole world is used for solving of educational and business issues. We have many tasks, which include correlation of the curriculum with needs of employers and the current economic agenda of the region. With a mentor’s help it is easier for a student to orientate in his or her aspirations, and where he or she can apply them, to learn how to optimize resources and consciously to start moving up the career ladder”, as the chairman of the board of the Yamal Union of Reindeer Herders said. Stepan Vanuito adds that the community “Syadey-Yakhinskaya” also needs young specialists – book-keepers, lawyers, veterinarians. Also hope to provide youth with job on fuel and energy enterprises appeared with consideration of future development of the Gydan Peninsula. “I do not speak about mass transfer of young tundra-dwellers to fuel and energy sphere”, as Stepan Vanuito said. – “But Nenets families, as a rule, are large. And if among 10 children someone becomes a gas worker and someone – a teacher, a doctor, a veterinarian or stays a reindeer herder – it is normal”.