The State Ministry for Youth Affairs has launched a media campaign promoting the sagacity of training and employing people with special needs in both the private and public sectors, said a ministry official on Tuesday.
The campaign is basically a program that deals with informing the business community and the public with the virtues of hiring people with special needs, many of whom could be easily employable through intensive training, said director of the national program to train the youth to become leaders Dr.Mishaal Al-Jaboubi, in a press statement.
The program consists of 30 days of training for candidates with special needs, including classroom instruction and field trips, he said, following which the candidates would be eligible to seek employment.
He added that registration for this program is open today for would-be candidates via the ministry's web site.