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| | No diploma, no future. True or false? |
 | | In 1987, he and several colleagues launched le Centre de formation en entreprise et récupération (CFER), a training centre in business and waste recycling for secondary school students, most of them dropouts. |
 | | This ground-breaking approach takes students off the scrap heap of the education system, restores their self-esteem, gives them goals, hope, training, and in most cases, a job. |
 | | Most audaciously, CFER also creates small businesses in the field of recycling and energy conservation, where between 70 and 80 per cent of CFER's former students have found jobs. |
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