Employment and job placement

Finding your feet in terms of a job is a key way to restoring a sense of self.

We help you in the following ways:

Adult training

Apart from the Pioneer School, the Institute for the Blind offers adults that became blind at a later stage of their lives continued learning through education and training classes. Click here to find out more about adult training.

Supported employment

The Institute provides a vast array of manufacturing training for the visually impaired to equip them for employment at the six resident factories.

Job placement

Want us to help you find a job placement?

Gallery

: Metal department

: Manufacturing nuts and bolts

: Packaging department making a mat

: Mattress department

: Completing an inner spring mattress

: completing a spring mattress

: Weaving in Hannes Duminy Department

: Making springs for mattresses

: Metal department – Bending metal

: Packaging department making a holder for paper

: Making a mattress

: Cane Department

: Man on a crane

: Visually impaired woman weaving

: image of matresses being stored

: Spray painting our baskets

: Woodwork department

Photos by Jean-Pierre Uys – See his other work here – Site and blog.