We do believe in our abilities, we are citizens of the same city; provide us training and employment context. We need authorities and the society to pave our path, we pledge to close with you to build a better country.
According to the news headquarters of the National Festival of "self-esteem" in the above sentence summarizes the message of the second festival and it could be heard from people who have physical limitations, speaking of faith and confidence.
The second "National Festival of confidence" have been held to examine the issues of entrepreneurship and employment for persons with disabilities during the days 9 and 10 September with 26 associations and organizations active in the field of the disabled educational charity complex of "Raad" was held in an effort to meet the challenges continued employment of handicapped.
There were symptoms during the festival that hope to improve conditions of employment for people with disabilities to the extent that the Minister of Welfare considered the festival as the main pattern of the ministry.
Ali Rabiei noted on the sidelines of the Confidence festival that the model that you see here is our basic model to work. Disabled have extraordinary ability and should be able to do things according to their abilities. We will assist them in terms of education, design, and marketing facilities.
Minister of Cooperatives, Labor and Social Welfare said institutions such as Raad can act as a mediator among people and this policy. I'm here to announce that our institutions are ready to expand our cooperation in this field.
Meanwhile, Sedigheh Akbari, Director of Raad Charity Complex, said the capacity will be released only in the context of self-esteem and confidence, which is Raad Charity Complex has always tried this feature on people with disabilities reinforcement.
She has also mentioned that their aim is to empower disables; self-esteem and education lead to job training to disabled students were able to learn the necessary training to achieve sustainable employment.
Mr. Ahmed Mirzakhani Chairman of Raad Complex and Mariam Mirzakhani’s father, mathematical genius in this regard, said Iranian youth have enormous potential, which may the situation is not prepared enough, even in remote villages that field activities have not been provided to be identified.
The festival also has concrete examples of self-esteem, creating statue of the festival by disables themselves, entry into the food industry that has been done by the Saman Golriz and Raad members, beautiful works done in 6 axis as entrepreneurship, social, media, scientific, cultural, artistic and sports and models with self-confidence, conditions and creating jobs for people with disabilities, including the instances were created.
The second National Festival of confidence was finished by introducing the winners of the festival by the jury.
According to the news headquarters of the National Festival of "confidence" after arbitration by a team of professors and leading experts, selected the six axes of the second National Festival of "confidence" were as follows:
Entrepreneurship axis: Raad charity complex of Kerman, Gharveh Disability union, educational complex of Raad in Taleghan
Social axis: Kashan’s Kashaneh-Mehr institute, Payam-Avaran-Sahel-Omid Institute, Musa-bin-Jafar Institute
Sci-cultural Axis: Qom Disabled cultural office, Iran Disabilities Association of artistic creation, Handicapped of Mashhad
Media Axis: Iranian Deaf Family Association, Association of Persons with Disabilities “Tavana”, Raad educational complex KarajBranch
Art Axis: Painting: Neda Bayat, Azam Moradi, Fatemeh Robatjazi. Mosaic field: Hussain Mardani, Fardin Farzin and Abdul Hossein Eshaghi
Sport Axis: Taher Khani, Somayeh Sadeghi, Hossein Moghimi
Festival Icons: Prof. Mohammad Hossein Kariminejad, Dr. Seyed Majid Mirkhani, Dr. Mohammad Kamali, Dr. Mahmoud Alimohammadi
Successful models of entrepreneurship: Mohsen Bahman Abadi, Mohammad Reza Emami, Hassan Zolfaghari
During the festival, there were complains that it was in the midst of aspirations. A young educated member of Raad in Rasht center with a bachelor's degree in the field of electronics and industrial electronics, wiring, smart home and circuit design to achieve an acceptable level of ability has not yet managed to find a job. However, the future and says he hopes to find an official job has changed and wants to be an entrepreneur himself and his friends.
The level of achievement by Alireza Danesh is depended on the assistance of authorities; where the government take more tangible efforts in coming future in order to help the handicaps to overcome occupational problems. According to Ali Rabiei, the current government is about to make a historical step to help disables.