Career exhibition empowers persons with intellectual disabilities, autism

Career exhibition empowers persons with intellectual disabilities, autism

HE the Minister of Social Development and Family (MSDF) Maryam bint Ali bin Nasser al-Misnad has inaugurated the first edition of the career day for persons with intellectual disabilities and autism, in the presence of HE the Minister of Labour Dr Ali bin Smaikh al-Marri.

Organsed by the MSDF's Shafallah Center for Persons with Disabilities, the career day is a first-of-its-kind exhibition that empowers persons with disabilities (PWDs) and draws supporters and partners to get familiarised with the abilities of PWDs and autism, along the services the centre provides to help them include in the society through offering job opportunities that best suit their talents.

Accompanied by the acting director of Civil Service and Government Development Bureau (CGB) Saif bin Ali al-Kaabi, HE al-Misnad, alongside HE Dr al-Marri toured several corners of the expo that chiefly showcase the most important professions on which the centre's affiliates had been trained.

In addition, she toured a special corner for coffee-making, run by several of the centre's affiliates, and was briefed on an overall workshop for Shafallah grocery, where affiliates produce many products and sell them out, in addition to the centre's operation in the production line of Qatar Airways, Al Meera and Mahaseel sell products.