The Open Hearts Association of Rights and Assistance to People with Disabilities, which implements the project “Creating inclusive conditions for employment of young people with severe disabilities on the basis of the greenhouses of Social Workshops” as part of the PROMIS Project SME Assistance and Development Fund, has set up a greenhouse on the territory Social workshops in the village of Dorozhnoe, Vinnytsia region.

In consultation with experts, the project team professionally equipped a greenhouse on the territory of Social workshops in the village. Road for 20 km. from Vinnitsa.

An arched greenhouse of 5 x 20 m in size was installed here with automatic drip irrigation, heating, lighting and ventilation, with equipment for integrated plant cultivation. In February-March, seeds were sown, and in April they already received the first seedlings for sale and planting on the premises of the social workshops.

Today in the greenhouse there are several thousand bushes of seedlings of bell pepper, tomatoes, cucumbers, decorative and hot pepper, Brussels sprouts, kohlrabi, spicy herbs - mint, lemon balm, basil, thyme, oregano, tarragon, rosemary, arugula, lettuce, and also flowers - asters, marigolds, etc.

Anna Pryadkina, a social educator, says: “Among the organization’s clients, 16 young people with severe disabilities and 10 parents were selected. With them, training was conducted on the formation of skills in greenhouses.

Today we have a fully functioning greenhouse farm with the organization of 8 employment places for young people with severe disabilities who help in greenhouses according to an individual schedule.

We see progress - how our children are changing, working in greenhouses. They like work and they don’t even want to return home (every day such youth is brought from Vinnitsa to the Social workshops of the village of Dorozhnoe). Today our guys are picking decorative pepper - they are planting it from the greenhouse into the ground. "