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 Business News | April 2005 
Company to Employ Only the Disabled
 Angélica Simón - El Universal
| | A disabled resident of the capital was inspired by a workshop in Japan to open a business giving work to the handicapped. |
The financial challenges that confront a person with a disability are many: Medical costs, specialist fees and expenses for equipment, among others. On top of the numerous expenses, it can be very difficult for a disabled person to find meaningful, wellpaying work.
Verónica Rodríguez, a Mexico City resident who was left a quadriplegic after an automobile accident, is doing her part to help other physically challenged people earn a decent living. She has created a business plan for a workshop that will make glass and ceramic promotional items, with the idea that the operation will be staffed entirely by disabled people.
Rodríguez's business would make items like cups and glasses with imprinted logos, which she says could be done with machinery that requires only the use of one's arms.
And best of all, she says that it is a business that could provide good wages to its workers.
"We believe that this is an excellent idea because all businesses need publicity, and that means earnings for us," she says.
Initially, Rodríguez plans to launch the workshop from a space in her home. And she says that she will integrate therapists into the operation to assist workers in their training and to help them recuperate their selfesteem. This, she believes, will make the workplace more productive.
Rodríguez came up with her idea after participating in a leadership training course in Japan. The scholarship she received from the program's organizers was the first that had ever been granted to a quadriplegic.
She used her time in Japan to study the differences between the treatment of disabled people there and in her home of Mexico, and she says that after that experience, she became determined to help a group of people that she says is often forgotten here. |
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