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Ophori Cosmetics: How a Romanian social enterprise creates jobs for people with disabilities
Ophori Cosmetics, a social enterprise offering hand-made cosmetics, has its entire production staff made up of vulnerable people, and strives to create and adapt jobs according to its social mission.
Simona Fodor · Journalist
· Updated · 8 min read
Ophori Cosmetics, a social enterprise offering hand-made cosmetics, has its entire production staff made up of vulnerable people, and strives to create and adapt jobs according to its social mission.
A small percentage of people with disabilities manage to find employment. In the country, a little over 7% of people with disabilities aged 18 to 64 were employed in January 2019, according to data from the tax administration ANAF quoted in a report* of the Foundation for Civil Society Development. Using a previous experience in the NGO environment, the founders of Brașov-based Ophori Cosmetics decided to do their share to change that and set up a workshop that employs vulnerable people.
