LAWE Creative Space: AYA Special Program

The project is seeking to address the lack of job opportunity for the diffable, especially on handicraft and artwork field. In our last three years of collaborating, training and working with diffable groups, we found that children has a lot of artisan skill potential. Also, among the diffable, young women have the least access to the business environment.




Children with special needs who graduated from school merely come back home, do nothing, and become burden to their family for the rest of their life. Although they learned different kinds of life skills in the school, their parents still want to protect them and won't allow their kids to search for job opportunities, that are somehow very rare.




Their parents also don't have a support group to help them work together with their children on developing their own business that would bridge the children potential to the market. There is also not enough creative space and special tools that are dedicated for diffable children to building their capacity.