Teaballs cooperates with BWMK Main-Kinzig district

Our Teaballs are produced in cooperation with the Dienstleistungszentrum (DLZ) Langenselbold. The DLZ is a workshop for people with disabilities (WfbM) and belongs to the Behinderten-Werk Main-Kinzig e.V.. (BWMK). It offers people with disabilities work and qualification in various occupational fields.
BWMK has written us a few lines about it, which we would like to share with you:

"Workshops for disabled people are highly specialised facilities for participation in working life for people with severe disabilities. They offer vocational training, work and support in personal development.

Work in workshops cannot be directly compared to full-time gainful employment, as the workshop provides additional services such as various care activities, occupational and physiotherapy, etc. depending on the individual's disability-related support needs.

Furthermore, so-called work-accompanying measures are offered, which the employees also take advantage of during working hours.
The work-accompanying measures serve the personal development as well as the holistic health promotion of persons with disabilities and social integration. They include numerous educational, qualification and cultural and sporting offers.

In addition, people with disabilities who have no other income apart from the workshop fee receive state assistance for living expenses, for example, subsidies for rent payments, care services, pension for reduced earning capacity and basic income support.

However, it is also clear that the labour market, society, the state and also the workshops must work even more consistently to bring people with disabilities into the normal labour market. For inclusion to succeed, society needs to change its way of thinking. We can only advance occupational participation as a community. Every individual, also in the company, is called upon.

Workshops do much more than "just" facilitate the transition to the general labour market. Making transitions is not the main task of the workshops. The task of the workshops and thus their services are manifold: vocational training, personality development, maintaining and ideally expanding the performance or earning capacity of people with disabilities, to name just a few."