Posted on 13.06.2021 at 19:18 by APA News
Ivorian Prisca Marie-Costance Trey, crippled in her legs, a disability that forces her to move in a wheelchair, believes that “” being disabled should not be a brake on everyone’s life.
Despite her reduced mobility, Prisca Trey does not feel sorry for herself. For her, “the handicap, it happens in the head” and it “is not normal”, a state of mind which leads her to surpass herself in the face of her challenges.
Present at the 5th edition of the “Handi Employment Day”, an employment fair for people with disabilities, held in Abidjan on June 10, 2021 around the issue of “invisible disabilities”, she came to examine the opportunities .
In Dabou, a town west of Abidjan, Prisca Trey is president of disabled women in this agglomeration, where between 200 and 300 people have disabilities.
For this edition, Handi Emploi, has opened its field to invisible disabilities, which are disabilities not apparent in individuals such as sickle cell disease or people suffering from osteoarthritis or endometriosis.
She wants to share the opportunities of this show with her colleagues in order to get a job. Thanks to the exceptional recruitment of people with disabilities, Prisca has a job today.
After two failures in the Ivorian civil service entrance test, Prisca Trey passed the third year, in 2019, in the derogatory competition for people with disabilities.
Administrative assistant at the Dabou court, Prisca Marie-Constance Trey (38), holder of a BEPC (Undergraduate study certificate), aims to pass the BAC in the coming years in order to evolve in the judicial service .
His sport is badminton. Engaged in this discipline, she is now part of the para-badminton team of Côte d’Ivoire. An athlete at heart, Prisca Trey has won several races organized by this organization.
Handi Emploi promoter, Ms. Danièle Adahi, general commissioner of Handi Emploi Day, was delighted that this platform offers pathways to people with disabilities for socio-professional integration.
For several hours, the companies that set up stands, exchanged views with people with disabilities with a view to possible integration according to their skills and know-how.
More than 700 people visited the Handi Emploi fair, the main objective of which is to “raise awareness and inform companies as well as the population on the procedures, the usefulness and the very issue of the integration of these vulnerable people in companies ”.
The campaign theme for the 2021 edition of Handi Emploi Day is “Invisible disabilities”. As an innovation, Libellule, the Recruitment & Human Resources Consulting Firm, promoter of this show, launched a digital campaign on this theme.
