The factory that combines school and work to give El Salvador a brighter future
At a garment factory that makes T-shirts bearing the logos of American universities, about a fifth of the workers at high-school dropouts. But if they want to keep their jobs, they'll need...
========== WILLIAM BRANGHAM: But first: combining school
and work to build a brighter future for employeesand their communities.In his final report from El Salvador, Fred
de Sam Lazaro visits a garment factory thathires workers who are normally left out of
society, including ex-gang members.It's part of Fred's series Agents for Change.FRED DE SAM LAZARO: Fifty thousand T-shirts
and sweatshirts buzz through the sewing machinesin this factory every week, bearing the seals
and mascots of some 1,600 U.S. universities,Princeton, Michigan, Kenyon College, each
one, it seems, a reminder to general managerRodrigo Bolanos of what El Salvador desperately
needs.RODRIGO BOLANOS, General Manager: Now, only
if you have an educated population, you cando something for this country....