SCHS

SCHS MANAGED TO FIND JOBS FOR 96 PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES

Sep 19, 2019

Sharjah City for Humanitarian Services (SCHS) cares very much to employ and find jobs for persons with disabilities in general and those with mental disability in particular.  SCHS does that due to the wise instructions of His Highness Sheikh Dr. Sultan bin Mohammed Al Qasimi, Supreme Council Member and Ruler of Sharjah, which involves treating society members on equal basis without discrimination of any kind.

In this context, SCHS was able to employ and find jobs for 96 persons with disabilities within many institutions in public and private sectors only in the last five years.  

SCHS by seeking to hire and find jobs for persons with mental disability confirms their right to work like their non-disabled peers.  It also confirms their capability to work and produce.  SCHS seeks to raise people’s awareness of this concept and tries to increase their confidence in persons with mental disability’s ability to integrate into every area of life.

Mrs. Mona Abdel Karim, Director of SCHS, has pointed out that among those, which SCHS helped find jobs during the last five years, were 53 persons with mental disability.  This corresponds to SCHS leading role in including, advocating, and empowering persons with disabilities according to the best international practices.

Mrs. Mona talked about a long run strategy that SCHS incorporated for its students at early intervention stage up to training and employment stage.  She has pointed out that SCHS does not only train and find jobs for students with disabilities; its specialists visit those students at work place periodically to evaluate their performance.

She said, ”SCHS hired 46 persons with different types of disabilities, 25 of them are with mental disabilities.  As for those working for other institutions the number of persons with mental disabilities has reached 28 and 22 with different types of disabilities”.

Mrs. Mona has mentioned that the number of persons with disabilities that were hired and are going to be hired in the future will increase as much as possible.  She invited individuals and organizations to realize the concept of social responsibility and constantly cooperate with SCHS to achieve its goals.