Job club for differently-abled planned
By Asha P Nair
30th November 2008 01:00 AM
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: It is not always education and opportunity that are missing for the physically-challenged in the society. Often, it’s the feeling of security and independence too.
In a novel venture, the State Vocational Rehabilitation Centre (VRC) for the Handicapped has decided to provide them just that. A job club, that will primarily aim to remove the fears of the physically challenged about their employment skills and secondly strive to promote group employment concept, will soon be launched for the physically-challenged in the State.
The idea is simple. And the arrangement is informal, according to the VRC officials.
Initially, a group of 20 persons, both physically and mentally challenged, will form the club and put their job skills which they have acquired from the VRC into best use to earn a living - be it plumbing, welding or fixing electronic appliances.
What they fear to do alone, they might make it as a group, the VRC officials believe. Even the public can make use of the service of the job club.
“Once they get over their fears, they will be able to stand on their own feet. It’s an interim arrangement, where they will learn c-operation, coordination among themselves and through that co-ordination with others in society.
It’s part of our group employment promotion programme,” State VRC Deputy Director (Rehab) V. Satheesachandran Nair said. In the next stage, the job club will be integrated with the VRC’s own Cooperative Society for the Handicapped to generate employment.
In a novel venture, the State Vocational Rehabilitation Centre (VRC) for the Handicapped has decided to provide them just that. A job club, that will primarily aim to remove the fears of the physically challenged about their employment skills and secondly strive to promote group employment concept, will soon be launched for the physically-challenged in the State.
The idea is simple. And the arrangement is informal, according to the VRC officials.
Initially, a group of 20 persons, both physically and mentally challenged, will form the club and put their job skills which they have acquired from the VRC into best use to earn a living - be it plumbing, welding or fixing electronic appliances.
What they fear to do alone, they might make it as a group, the VRC officials believe. Even the public can make use of the service of the job club.
“Once they get over their fears, they will be able to stand on their own feet. It’s an interim arrangement, where they will learn c-operation, coordination among themselves and through that co-ordination with others in society.
It’s part of our group employment promotion programme,” State VRC Deputy Director (Rehab) V. Satheesachandran Nair said. In the next stage, the job club will be integrated with the VRC’s own Cooperative Society for the Handicapped to generate employment.
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