Synergies Work opens doors for entrepreneurs with disabilities

ATLANTA (WUPA) — An area non-profit is giving entrepreneurs with disabilities the assets and connections to launch profitable companies.

Jasmin Duffey, 35, was the quantity two basketball participant within the nation, attending Center Tennessee State College, when she misplaced her sight throughout eye surgical procedure in 2012.

“I’ve went by way of each emotion potential, unhappiness, despair, denial, till I discovered myself,” the McDonough native stated, describing how she discovered her calling as a spoken phrase artist.

Duffey stated she wanted an open door to launch her spoken phrase platform, Blinded by Ambition LLC, and direct-to-garment (DTG) printing enterprise.

“When you’re labeled as an individual with a incapacity, I believe that is the place different folks cease offering alternatives, and Synergies did the other,” she stated, concerning Synergies Work. “They hyperlink you with a mentor. I’ve my sales space. I’ve my laptop, simply every thing I would like as an engineer. They’ve, like, oh my God, been such a blessing.”

The inspirational spoken phrases she carried out throughout her interview with Atlanta Now Information captured her constructive outlook.

“I am blinded by ambition, so I by no means see obstacles,” she stated.

Aarti Sahgal, whose youthful son has Down syndrome, based Synergies Work in 2016.

“I noticed that there is not an area for entrepreneurs with disabilities. No person’s serving them,” she stated, explaining how this system helped her son launch two startups. “He runs a web based tea enterprise, and he has arrange his personal app and know-how platform.”

This system has helped greater than 200 entrepreneurs with disabilities since 2016, and it has launched greater than 70 startup companies within the final two years.

“There are retail companies that they is likely to be doing. They is likely to be doing technology-based companies. They are often service-oriented. They’re artists,” stated Sahgal.

It is given artists and entrepreneurs like Duffey a transparent imaginative and prescient for future success.

“Even the bible tells us to stroll by religion and never by sight. So, this sightless life that I am residing was designed by Christ,” she stated, in a spoken phrase poem.

Synergies Work will host its first EDDIE Award Ceremony on Thursday, recognizing high entrepreneurs with disabilities. The occasion is bought out, however anybody interested by attending can request to hitch a waitlist right here: https://synergieswork.org/eddie-awards/.