ANKARA UNION

OF TRADESMEN AND CRAFTSMEN

CHAMBERS

NO: EG.AR-GE 242/1348

SUBJECT: Integration into Society and Employment of People with Mental Disabilities.

CIRCULAR LETTER NO (42) TO OUR CHAMBERS

REFERENCE; “The Project of Comparing Working Techniques in Schools for Special

Needs (WORKSEN)” no.2011-1-TR1-LEO04-24209-3

With the saidproject that we participate in as a project partner, there have been

activities intended for the importance of cooperation with the sector for innovations in

vocational education for our students with special needs, sharing experience, comparing the

curricular content, famliy training, the integration to social and professional life.

Children with mental disabilities constitute an important part of children with special

needs. For this reason, in order to prevent the isolation of people with mental disabilities from

the society, the continuity of the following and such activities are taken as a basis:

1. The integration and rehabilitation of people with mental disabilities,

2. Education – training activities according to their conditions and skills,

3. Employment of people with mental disabilities according to the skills they have

acquired

Among the objectives and strategies of our project, improving the cooperation

between the school and the sector in order for children with mental disabilities to be employed

in appropriate lines of work according to the skills they have acquired.Thus, children with

mental disabilities will contribute to the economy of the country and they will have the

awareness of citizenship.

Accordingly, the students from Hurin Yavuzalp Vocational School, one of our project

partners, gained a two-day working experience in establishments member to our chambers

affiliated with our association.

This two-day work experience has showed us that children with disabilities have no

diffucilty in adapting not only to social life but also to business life when given chance and

opprtunity and it has been gladly observed that in order to contribute to their family and the

economy of the country, they made a great effort.

For this reason, it is considered significant that the establishments the facilities and

working conditions of which are appropriate provide employment for people with disabilities

in the establishments member to our chambers affiliated with our association in terms of their

providing contribution the economy of the country by easing the burden of the families of

people with disabilities and by preventing the risk of isolation.

Further information can be obtained from our project website “www.worksen.com”.

Furthermore, it is important that among the establishments member to our chamber, the ones

willing to employ the graduate students of Hurin Yavuzalp İş Okulu contact the Project

Assistant Sinem Aslan through the phone numbers of our Association: 310 22 44 – 310 22 45.

We kindly request informing our members of our affiliated chambers in regard to the

importance of this issue.

Sincerely...

Abdurrahman VAROL Mehmet Yiğiner

Secretary General President