Housing association the Peabody Trust received 1.5m in funding to develop vocational support in estates in Tower Hamlets and Hackney, and employ residents to encourage others to access it.
EQUAL, a European Social Fund initiative to combat discrimination in the labour market through international partnership, is funding the project.
The scheme's services will be made more accessible with the help of "befrienders": specially trained residents employed to support others and gather views on how services should develop. Services will include IT training and career guidance provided in the trust's estate-based learning centres.
Organisers of the Bethnal Green-based project hope it can become a model for others to follow in deprived parts of other European cities.
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