The Director General of the Public Authority for Disability Affairs Dr. Bibi Al-Amiri confirmed Wednesday that training people with disabilities and their qualification for the labor market are a real investment in society with the entry of various job paths.
This came in Dr. Al-Amiri’s statement to KUNA on the sidelines of the partners to employ campaign, the fourth batch organized by PADA in cooperation and strategic partnership with the Human Develop Institute.
This includes training that ensures that the target segment gets the full rights and the duties through PADA’s partnership with public benefit societies and others with the awareness of what the labor market needs and thus provide the skills due, she said.
She underscored PADA’s keenness to increase the number of rates of employment of people with different disabilities in the upcoming years in the governmental and private sectors, explaining that it seeks more cooperation with others with the aim of training and providing them with job opportunities.
In a similar statement to KUNA, Director General of the Human Develop Institute Awatif Al-Salman said that the initiative, partners to employ, was launched since the previous years with the aim of measuring the integration of disabled people in the private sector.
Al-Salman emphasized that the celebration of graduates of the last batch of trainees shows success, indicating that the number of graduates was 74, 42 for the private sector and 32 in the government sector.
The employees of the initiative took the training associated with the job tasks in the private sector such as customer service, office management and information systems.
She revealed the launch of the fifth batch of the campaign aimed at employing people with disabilities will be through PADA’s official website tomorrow and extended until the end of next July.
Meanwhile, the Deputy Director General for National Employment Affairs at the Public Authority for Manpower (PAM) Najat Al-Yousef confirmed to KUNA PAM’s keenness to cooperate with all givers of job opportunities.
Source: Kuwait News Agency