The day has ceased to be. Dawn has not come yet. And it will never come again to the sky of Ahmad, for when the day came to an end, his motion was not as good as before. The Great Return March this day has chosen him its target.

Since then he has lost his work as a car painter, in which he has been instructed in through a technical school followed to the Palestinian Ministry of labor. Alas, what he was doing for a living is now gone with the wind. The thing that entrapped him into the shallow of depression and deficit as he is dramatically no longer capable of continuing the work he mastered most, for Alas he is now counted a disabled man.

“I grieved for losing my job, in the same manner, I did for losing my motion, but a spark of hope recalled my heart to life again when I went to learn new living means at IUG Irada Center for people with disability.

What caught his sight in Irada was that it counts on the practical training much more than basics and principles; the thing that has brought out most of his internal strength into the light and emboldened his willpower to stick with it lifelong.

Different majors, more peers were receiving training as he would doing soon, all of them integrated and treated equally, the atmosphere was encouraging him to break the iceberg when he first visited Irada center.

In fact, the chance he found in Irada center swept off his feet to learn new profession as well as new skills that utterly suit his new current state. Therefore, he has chosen to work in electrical engines and similar stuff, for it gains a good demand and fits his ABILITY.

Ahmed, the youth aged 26, has newly reborn in a new state of health, a new major, a new goal, a new life, new skills and new passion for all those new footsteps that echoed to his life. This made him not only enjoys studying but even gets benefit before his graduation. He started to put what he has been acquiring into practice, and really his tangible distinguish was drawing his trainer’s attention.

“I am so glad to see my work realized and my first breakthrough was a welding machine,” he proudly said.

The strong resilience of Ahmed made him thinking and looking towards a better future. He began with buying old and out-of-use machines, some of them have been resold, others recycled to be mended for little. Consequently, Ahmed has been setting his sight on a bigger project for his own. And by resolution, his dream will soon come true.

Ahmed Abu Sabra has been reintegrated through vocational training, and has been given this opportunity within the project “Employment of Women and Youth in the Gaza Strip”, which implemented by Irada Centre for Rehabilitation and Vocational training for persons with disabilities, with generous fund from the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation and under the auspice of the United Nations Programme UNDP/PAPP.