A Delhi-based NGO will be organising an exclusive job fair for persons with disabilities in Dehradun on June 28. Sarthak Educational Trust will be organising the event- the first of its kind in Dehradun from 10 AM at the National Institute for the Visually Handicapped on Saturday
According to the event organisers, the job fair is for people between the age group of 18 to 30 years who are hearing impaired or orthopedically challenged.
The fair will be preceded with a sensitisation workshop for the employers to make them understand the capability of person with disability as well as the challenges of hiring such workforce and the ways to deal with it. It is being organised in collaboration with the NIVH.Sarthak Educational Trust is dedicated towards the employment of persons with disability and their rehabilitation. Through this fair it aims to facilitate employment opportunity and allow physically challenged people to lead life of self-reliance and dignity.
It trains and prepares such people for the job and at the same time explores job opportunities in a particular sector or organisation to place them. Till date Sarthak has conducted 55 fairs across India with the first camp in Dehradun to be held on the weekend. The Sarthak Educational Trust CEO Jitendra Aggarwal said that the NGO believes that a person with disability can easily lead a life of dignity and financial independence.
With some training and an inclusive work environment one can shape a meaningful life for them. “These job fairs help us to instill confidence in the young minds enabling them to face the world with a purposive and pragmatic approach towards employment. Equally crucial is the need to sensitise the corporates and the employing firms about the rich human resource hidden in the differently abled. As members of civil society we must encourage differently abled workforce to join the market forces and live a life of quality standards without being dependent of others,” he said.