I’m just like you

Gil Cataloni, thirty-seven-year-old actor in “A Different Theater”, Olympic swimmer and worker at the Cellcom company.

“I have been working at Cellcom in Netanya for seven years now, in the mail department. I stamp outgoing mail with an automatic stamp machine. The staff likes me and I take my job seriously.

With the help of “A Different Way to an Occupation” and AKIM I succeeded in finding this job and to overcome many other problems as well.

Although I have to travel many hours to and from work I am pleased that I am treated as I am because of myself, I’m just like you.

A Different Way to an Occupation

AKIM believes that every person should be given an opportunity to join the work force in accordance with his or her abilities. “A Different Way to an Occupation” is a rehabilitation program operated by Social Security which in cooperation with the branches of AKIM places handicapped people over the age of twenty-one in jobs on the open market.

The success of the program is dependent on willingness of employers to give jobs to mentally handicapped people.

The purpose of “A Different Way to an Occupation” is to develop the work potential of rehabilitated people and to find for them jobs which fits their skills and abilities, in order to enable such people to live as independently as possible within a community to which they contribute and in which they feel as equals.

                “With AKIM’s help I manage to cope”, Gil and his father Avshalom

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