Samsung CARES! : E-Community Technology Center for Unemployed Youths is a social project to empower 350 unemployed youths in economically disadvantaged neighborhoods to acquire e-skills, e-entrepreneurial knowledge and improved e-access to occupational information. E-skills, which comprise both general and specific employability, will enable the youths to seek better job opportunities. E-entrepreneurial knowledge will allow them to use the knowledge gained to initiate digital micro-enterprises in their own neighborhoods. Access to online occupational information will enable the youths to further studies in local youth training institutes or to join an apprentice program in manufacturing companies.

Unemployment among youths is a serious and persistent problem ; more than 50% of the total youths in the target areas are currently unemployed due to low education level, lack of any marketable skills and involvement in negative activities such as drug abuse, gangsterism, loafing and juvenile delinquencies.

Samsung CARES! will be a pilot project to address youth unemployment issues by offering a one-stop community technology center to alleviate youth unemployment via technological means. Unemployed youths are our intellectual capital, which left un-harnessed, untrained and untapped will only pose danger to the aspirations of our nation.