Nearly 500 young people have participated in the Grumet Exit Project sponsored by the Fundación Laureus España

For centuries, cabin boys, who were often young children, would take to the sea to learn a trade as a way to escape from misery. Grumet Exit was the first project of the Fundación Laureus España, created in mid-2006 and chaired by Juan Antonio Samaranch Salisachs. Grumet Exit is open to students of both sexes in the third and fourth year of secondary school, most of whom are immigrants with academic problems, a tendency towards absenteeism or trouble fitting in socially who are given an extracurricular stimulus that has a favourable impact on their academic and personal lives.