Wassatah Network initiative

Development Partners Award

Second Place: Wassatah Network initiative

Winning Justifications:

The initiative is a website that focuses on reducing unemployment rates for people with special needs, by creating jobs that are commensurate with their academic qualifications and type of disabilities they have. It serves as a link between job seekers, who have special needs, and employers looking for staff from this segment. The initiative serves all targeted persons with special needs (mental, motor, visual, intellectual, psychological and other disabilities) and provides them with a legal cover. The initiative launcher has agreed with some legal specialists (volunteers) to assume the legal matters in the event of any exploitation in the employment of this segment, or in case of any arbitrary dismissal of them. All vacancy advertisements are verified by the initiative launcher to ensure their appropriateness to job seekers (rewarding monthly salary, availability of electrical elevators, safe work environment, etc.). Advertisements are posted on the site for free, and the owners of suspicious companies that operate under a brokerage system have been banned from advertising on the initiative’s site. A page on the site has been assigned in their names to warn against dealing with them. A space on the website has been devoted to narrating the success stories of people with disabilities after having been employed through the site. The initiative launcher has also helped guide and assist other websites that care for persons with special needs, such as the Disability Employment Rights Website.


This initiative is social, awareness- building and economic:

  • (Economic): Works to reduce unemployment and create jobs for people with special needs that suit their qualifications and type of disability.
  • (Social): Integrating this group into the community to participate in the working life as active individuals who are productive and having equal rights, duties and work opportunities.
  • (Awareness-building): Educates people with special needs on their special rights by providing them with a work environment that guarantees their rights to dignity, respect and appreciation.



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