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Pixza is a social empowerment platform disguised as a pizzeria
As a pizzeria, Pixza offers the world´s first and only pizza made of blue corn with 100% Mexican ingredients. As a social empowerment platform, Pixza is dedicated towards achieving the socio-economically productive reintegration of young adults with a "social abandonment" profile through a multidimensional empowerment program that drives them to achieve 4 objectives in 18 months:
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Ensure and maintain formal employment and professional development at Pixza
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Establish and implement a personal and professional life plan
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Move out of the shelter and into their own apartment
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Take ongoing practical and professional courses
Young adults with a "social abandonment" profile are aged 17-27 and have the following six main characteristics:
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Homeless
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Abandoned by their family
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No formal education
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History of drug abuse
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Criminal record
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Migrants and-or refugees
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