For the first time, teens with disabilities will be able to find summer jobs like everyone else – thanks to the students of AMIT Renanim in Raanana.
At the end of the school year, AMIT Renanim students initiated and executed a plan to connect youth with disabilities and businesses in the city of Raanana offering accessible summer jobs. This project is part of the Chen Program, a youth leadership program to change attitudes towards people with disabilities. The students recruited businesses in town that could offer summer jobs to teens with disabilities in a variety of areas, such as work in cafés and restaurants, and administrative and service jobs – and then mediated between the young people and the local businesses.
“We decided that all teens are entitled to summer jobs,” said Yutal Weil, a 9th grader at AMIT Renanim and one of the leaders of the initiative. “We were delighted to find businesspeople who joined up and offered positions in their establishments.”
