When the Heller Keller Awards were first given out 18 years ago, it wasn’t easy for people with disabilities to find employment. Now, companies rival each other in hiring the disabled and giving them professional roles that people without their challenges would otherwise do.
The Helen Keller Awards have in no small measure contributed to this change. Instituted by the National Centre for Promotion of Employment for the Disabled (NCPEDP), the awards have been a source of inspiration in making workplaces inclusive by ending biases, improving design, using new technologies and recognising the right to employment of disabled. . .
