The minister of Labor and Employment Promotion, Alfonso Grados opened four construction works and improvement of vial and pedestrian infrastructure that generated 459 temporal employments at Eten and Patapo district in Lambayeque.

Grados highlighted that more than 2 million soles, through “Trabaja Perú” Program, were invested to benefit to residents of caserío Cascajales at Eten, and 3 de Octubre Street, cerro El Mirador and Mango, Acequia y Ceibo streets at Patapo.

“These projects not only generate temporal employment, but also promote sustained employment and with quality in the unemployed population and underemployed in the urban and rural areas of the country in poverty and extrem poverty condition”, said.

In the last five years, “Trabaja Perú” invested in Lambayeque more than 15 million soles, through execution of 112 public investment projects.

In this period 3,649 women and 2,361 men were benefited with temporal employment.

It is worth indicating that this program was created in 2011 to give temporal employment through the project funding of public investment in the use of unskilled labor.

“Trabaja Perú” finances pavement of roads, construction of sport areas, parks, green areas, retaining walls, irrigation channel, among others.

During his visit to Chiclayo, the minister Grados was accompanied by the viceminister of Employment Promotion and Labor Training, Jaime Obreros; the executive Director of Trabaja Perú, César Figueredo Muñoz; the mayor of Eten, José Puicán Zarpán and the mayor of Patapo, Juan Alberto Ramos Díaz.