Events, training courses and workshops were held to assist with employment, create awareness of career opportunities and enhance professional skills and capacity. Career fairs along with vocational training courses and workshops were organized through the Department of Youth Services’ Practical Employment Program. In addition, the project targeted schools through the expansion of TIDE’s Freshwater Cup (a local award-winning football tournament centered around environmental awareness). This created productive, alternative activities that will motivate them to stay in school, thus, reducing their risk of becoming engaged in criminal activities. The project was completed in September 2018 and TIDE invested over BZ$500,000.00 in Toledo.

There were 5 major objectives to the CARSI project:

1. To engage ≥ 358 youth ages 14-25 in training courses and workshops to empower them to gain employment as an alternative to crime, while enhancing self-confidence and leadership skills.
2. To involve ≥100 youth ages 14-25 in 2 career fairs, to empower them to seek employment and have greater knowledge of potential career opportunities.
3. To engage ≥1000 school children and adolescents in activities that enhance life skills: team work, self-esteem, leadership, environmental or healthy-living awareness, and reduce pressure to work for narco-traffickers.
4. To train ≥10 School teachers, including ≥5 females to be more confident and effective at sports coaching.
5. To engage the Government of Belize, to increase the level of understanding of sports for development projects with the aim to increase political will to replicate the Freshwater Cup.