Health Action Overseas Foundation (HAO) has continued the series of exchange meetings between young adults with disabilities looking for a job and potential employers organised within the project “Labour market Employment for young Adults with a Disability – LEAD”.
Thus, in the second half of July, four young beneficiaries of LEAD project participated at an experience exchange organised by HAO at Garden Shop (Constanta), a company which operates in the field of design, arrangement and maintenance of green spaces.
On this occasion, young adults interested in the employment as unskilled workers, found out useful information from the representatives of Garden Shop such as the tasks which need to be performed, the tools which are used, the work schedule and the salary package.
Following this meeting, three young people have expressed their desire to work with this company.
Three weeks later,another exchange meeting took place at Carrefour Constanţa, which was attended by six young adults with disabilities enrolled in LEAD project, interested in becoming commercial workers.
Carrefour representatives talked to them about how the activity is carried out in the toys, auto, sweets, and bakery/pastry departments, in the vegetable-fruit warehouse and at the cash registers. In this context, they gave details of: the tasks that need to be performed in each department, the work schedule, the salary package, the profession of a commercial worker and its challenges, and the reasons why young adults would choose such a profession.
Following this meeting, three young people expressed their wish to work with this company; two of them were hired in September.
While the LEAD project is carried out, 27 such experience exchanges will take place, 12 of them coordinated by HAO (Romania), 9 by Valakupiai Rehabilitation Center (Lithuania), and 6 by Consultis – Consultoria Empresarial, Unipessoal Lda. (Portugal).
