Persons with disabilities begin their internship in 11 organizations, institutions and enterprises in BiH

With the EU support, Caritas Bosnia and Herzegovina and its partner organizations are implementing a POWER project aimed at providing new opportunities for work, employment and professional rehabilitation for people with disabilities.

Eleven persons with disabilities from Bosnia and Herzegovina will soon begin their preparatory engagement, after signing cooperation agreements with representatives of eleven companies, institutions and organizations. The contracts were signed on 18 and 19 December in Sarajevo and Mostar, and this cooperation between employers and persons with disabilities was enabled within the project "POWER" funded by the European Union, and implemented by Caritas of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Traineeship involves a short-term opportunity for people with disabilities to develop professional skills, gaining work experience and understanding work assignments. Trainees are persons with disabilities, with at least 50% of disabilities, up to 35 years of age and who do not have work experience, ie they are registered in employment services as unemployed persons.

Trainees will work in the company ALFA THERM, the Institution "Kindergartens" Mostar, the Home for the Elderly, and out of the "Betanija" from Capljina, Logoviti, in DI & D from Mostar, then at the University of Sarajevo, the Media Center of the Vrhbosanska Archbishopric, the Association of amputers of East Sarajevo, organized by Youth for Peace, the ProReha Association and the Karitas public school of the Vrhbosanska Archdiocese.

Project P.O.W.E.R. is a two-year project funded by the European Union through the IPA II Cross-Border Cooperation Program Bosnia and Herzegovina - Montenegro. The total value of the project is 459,776 euros, of which the European Union finances 390,800 euros.