16:00, 16 July 2011

Invalids start making components for AvtoVAZ at factory in Rostov Region

The Rostov Region has launched an enterprise to make clamps for domestically-made passenger cars. Three million roubles were spent to create the facility, where 36 visually impaired invalids are employed.

As reported by the press-service of the Rostov Regional Department of the Russian State Employment Service, the new workplaces were created within the departmental target programme "Decrease of Tensions in Labour Market of Rostov Region in 2011".

The main customer was the "AvtoVAZ"; now negotiations are underway with the Auto Holding "GAZ Group". With increase in production volumes, new workplaces are quite possible, the RBC reports.

As reported by Andrei Azetov, Chairman of the Association of the Blind of the city of Krasny Sulin, "many of those who came to work at the enterprise became blind at an adult age." "Here, they have a possibility to communicate with their peers, make money and feel demanded members of the society," said Azetov as quoted by the "Avto-SFD".