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Nov 16, 2017 / 10:28

Start-up assistance for the disable

Starting a business is not easy, especially for the disable. But with the will to rise up, they have started successfully and always want to be devoted, doing useful things for life.

Eco-friendly soap

Becoming an unladen boy in an accident, Nguyen Van Chung (1984) in Thuong Tin, Hanoi was fortunate to have a friend teaching him how to make herbal soap. His work helps him master his own life.
 
 
Nguyen Van Chung is introducing eco-friendly soap at Vietnam High Quality Goods Fair
Nguyen Van Chung is introducing eco-friendly soap at Vietnam High Quality Goods Fair
Engaging in business, choosing clean, safe and healthy environment, clean soap products are extracted from rice bran, bamboo charcoal and many other natural herbs. Made in 2015, named as Sim soap, Chung shares the secret in the profession that he must first have a natural soap, then cut the embryos to steam and then dissolving the material by different types of soap. The ingredients include honey, turmeric, pollen, lemon grass and essential oils.

According to Chung, each batch, only the cooking process takes 2-3 hours, the finished product includes 56 soaps. "This soap is completely natural and does not use any chemicals. The good ingredients for skin and the health of consumers like rice bran will help clean the skin and remove dead skin," Chung shares.

Creating employment opportunities for the disable

To pursue a dream of a social enterprise, aiming to create employment opportunities for the underprivileged, co-founder of social enterprise Imagtor Le Hai Nguyen (Hanoi) has chosen his path that is not easy.
 
Le Hai Nguyen (in pink shirt) and co-founders of the social enterprise Imagtor
Le Hai Nguyen (in pink shirt) and co-founders of the social enterprise Imagtor
Concerned about the social problems that have not been solved yet, Hai Nguyen and his colleagues have studied the trends and services that can create value for profit and create value for employment opportunities for the disable in Vietnam. Since then, the idea of ​​development and service, processing of image and video data has been born. "The Imagorator is a social enterprise," says Nguyen, a wholly new entrepreneur, in a new direction, by leveraging the capabilities of the disable in information technology and image editing.

With the business model combining with free vocational training for the disable and the selection of employees with disabilities to work full time in a competitive environment, the Imagorator is one of the most powerful voices on the potential of the disabled in certain areas.

At present, enterprises have nearly 30 employees who are the disabled with average income of over 5 million VND. And their lives have really changed when they came to this common roof. The dream of Hanoi's passionate entrepreneur, started by the inspirational stories of each individual.