THIS year’s recent Disability Action Week provided a special opportunity to celebrate Ipswich businesses that operate on the theme, ‘Workforce Diversity: Open Up to Opportunity’.
Ipswich State MP Jennifer Howard said there were many hard working organisations in Ipswich that help people with disabilities to find work or directly employ them.
“EWaste Connection and Help Enterprises are just two local social enterprises employing and training people with disabilities,” she said.
“These social enterprises are a fantastic way to train and upskill people with disabilities into workplaces so they can help support the local economy.
“If you have any electronic waste or need metal fabrication done, consider giving EWaste Connection or Help Enterprises a call.”
EWaste Connection has recently opened a new location in North Booval and already has 30 trainees coming in each week to work at the facility including NDIS participants and students from Ipswich West State Special School, Ipswich Special School, and Claremont Special School.
EWaste continues to provide quality training to people with disabilities, focusing on how to repair electronic waste.
Forty-two people with disability are employed at HELP Enterprises’ Ipswich location, aged 19 – 64 years.
In the past year alone, HELP Enterprises’ Ipswich location has provided almost 60,000 hours of full-time employment for people with a disability.
