A Hutt Valley youth unemployment charity, Youth Inspire, has helped 1,500 young people gain driving licenses Photo: Supplied/ Youth Inspire
The most recent unemployment rates put the number of young people out of work at 16.5%.
And a charity working with at risk youth in the Hutt Valley says they are now seeing rangatahi from better off families also struggling to find work.
Youth Inspire has a waiting list of 150 unemployed young people, but at the same time is struggling to survive itself after cuts in Funding from the Ministry of Social Development. Kathryn speaks to Zainab Ali, Youth Inspire's CEO
