#wecanwork

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Made a doodle art capturing the spirit of the We Can Work program by Light for the World! A celebration of inclusion, empowerment, and opportunities for persons with disabilities in the workforce. Breaking barriers and creating a more accessible future!

Illustration by Oganga Khadudu

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Keep volunteering and making an effort. However we need for businesses to stay with us in our time of need. Certain entities are essential for us to bounce back and we need those in charge to maintain their public support of us. We need it to encourage new businesses to recognize our potential for success and set up shop thus allowing us to grow after the devastation we have had to endure. #HelpTheBahamas🇧🇸 #SupportTheBahamas #notahandoutbutahandup #wecanwork #thisisourhome #BahamasStong #StayWithUs #WhereThereIsLifeThereIsHope #Still_Here #ThisIsNotTheEnd (at The Bahamas) https://www.instagram.com/p/B2HEE6YB34C/?igshid=1pt4dr58cozq6

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‪Disability doesn’t equal incapability. Help change the mindset in the performing arts & every profession by recommending and considering qualified, disabled people for work. Everyone is talented! Everyone deserves a chance!‬

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Dear Mrs. Maneka Gandhi,

It is due to some unfortunate and unforeseen circumstances that I had been declared a Schizophrenic. I unfortunately did not have a privileged life that you had (Here I would like to assume that as you have assumed us unemployable due to the nature of our illness).

I , unlike many of my counterparts , am not that intelligent , but I am very well aware that before the illness struck I was smart enough to earn my own living – so smart that I was the envy of many. Abstract concepts and numbers were like nursery rhymes to me.

Yes, after the illness, things have changed but I have not grown richer that I stay unemployed and dependent on my parents. I personally don’t want reservation because I don’t think myself to be lesser than the so called mentally fit people, but I call it for those who are educated, had a bright future until the illness struck and a re struggling to make a living today.

Look around you Ms. Maneka Gandhi. I want to know how many of them around you in your political circles a re deemed fit for working inspite off being so called normal people. Their behavior and remarks on everyday lives and issues surpasses the understanding that we as insane people have of how a democratic government should work. Our integrity and honesty can be vouched for more than your so called “normal colleagues” for in our insane world we not deceive anyone nor are greedy for wealth.

You , hopefully have passed a general ignorant remark and have realized it , but personally you have rubbed salt on my already aching wounds inflicted by the unfairness of life.

We have a right to live and survive too… I had dreams to of making this country which has given me everything a better place for people like you and others, till the illness robbed the light out my eyes. And I know many others too graduating out of national institutes and the likes,  with dreams for their country more than themselves but stopped abruptly because of their illness. YOU THINK WE CANT WORK AND THAT TO FOR OUR COUNTRY????? IT doesn’t matter anymore what you think for I and like me many more will continue to work more sincerely and diligently with whats left of our shredded dreams for a better , more compassionate and understanding INDIA.

Yours Sincerely,

Proud to have a” Beautiful mind “

Jolly Thomas

Jan 29th, 2016

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Maananiya Maneka Gandhi, We are Kalpana, Bharti and Shobha, 'mentally ill people'!! We can work. This is our belief. 

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Maananiya Maneka Gandhi, My name is ChandraBhaga. I live in Lohiyanagar. If my daughter is given a job, she will nodoubt work. She will not be troubled and at home. 

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Maananiya Maneka Gandhi, My name is Anjali Gandhare. People with mental illness can surely work. 

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https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10153236868832413&id=692462412 My name is Vandana. I am with an organisation working towards mental health care accessible for all. We have and will always work with qualified people irrespective of their mental health diagnosis.