Our foundation (aiming to transform to social enterprise) Jamba Hungary (in international cooperation with Jamba Bulgaria https://jamba.bg/en/) aims to include people with disabilities in the open labour market to contribute to the implementation of their rights to work and employment (Art. 27, UN-CRPD, 2006*). Jamba set the objectives of filling identified positions by people with diverse abilities in the private sector with a special focus on the multinational environment. Throughout high-quality, individually adapted education and training for both employers and employees, the organisation establishes optimal conditions for a gap filler, long term, and mutually optimized cooperation. Potential employees are recruited and educated according to the open positions and market needs to become enthusiastic, potent and loyal workforce at fields with significant unemployment rates and high fluctuation. Simultaneously we support the employers to become an open, inclusive and accessible workplace to persons with diverse abilities to establish circumstances that allow the persons with special needs to reduce high level of dependency on out-of-work disability benefits. We are committed to decrease outstanding unemployment rates of people with diverse abilities in Hungary to adopt heterogeneous communities in a competitive market where diversity is rarely seen. On a broader scale the foundation strengthens equal economic participation, facilitates social inclusion and contributes to an open society.
*UN-CRPD: Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, United Nations (2006), ratified by Hungary in 2007.
Sari, I know somebody, who probably can join to your initiative - because of the same interest...: Zora Molnar https://www.facebook.com/zora.molnar/about?section=education&lst=1110273715%3A1321569286%3A1590174893 Ask her! :)
Thank you for your input and sharing your experience! Some of them are new to me, I will look those up! Our strategy is exactly to be independent from donations after a while. We believe that structural social change is possible if we are able to embed it in the existing system of society. If successfully embedded in capitalism, so practically the implementation of human rights is funded by the market, this is where we see the long term potential for sustainability. So the new component is to reach the companies as partners and make them interested in the market value our clients provide and leave the charity approach behind. In the meantime we are super motivated to build stakeholder relations all with private, public and NGO sectors.
For me yes, but not I am important here but the market. There are number of players in this field, Salva Vita in Hungary, the Czech Green Doors Foundation, ESET Help in Prague and as I know they rather work as an NGO subsidied by the government. Also many job coaching programs I saw in Australia also financed by the state. In Prague they rather started to develop their own social enterprises (cafes, hotels, printing houses) that helped to make their NGO to be sustainable. Hopefully soon Mirka from their organization will join us and she can share their experiences :)
You mentioned that you wanted to turn it into a social enterprise. What is the business profile of the initiative?
Dear @Zsolt, thanks for asking!
Yepp, exactly, we aim to establish something like a franchise. Jamba Austria is on the rise as well! We share the methodology, good practice and brand, but we are separate entities.
Re the types of jobs: lot of IT jobs, marketing, graphic design, bartending, really anything depending on individual skills, professional trainings offered for clients and market needs. We are currently searching for partners in Hungary who could be ambassadors of our cause and who we could build our first professional trainings with.
Dear @Sári Pásztor Shall I imagine it as a franchise? You will open the Hungarian branch of Jamba? The numbers of the Bulgarian organization is amazing..300 people in work. Do you know what kind of jobs these are?