The 80th Mini Woolies in Australia and New Zealand has opened at St Giles to give employment training to young people with disabilities. Video by Aaron Smith (21/10/24)
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00:00So there are a number of mini Woolworths that operate through some support schools across the state,
00:04but if you're not attending that support school, that opportunity might not be available.
00:08So having mini Woolworths in an organisation such as St Giles
00:12opens up that opportunity to a broader cross-section of the community.
00:16So it's more about how do we provide greater opportunities
00:20to enable people with disability to find meaningful pathways to employment.
00:25These are skills that will support participants to find meaningful employment.
00:29Retail operation, shelf packing, but even things like literacy and numeracy skills,
00:34and building confidence, interacting with the community.
00:38So being able to really genuinely participate in life in the community.
00:43And it's a really structured process for them to learn not only the register,
00:47but the packing of the shelves, the maintaining of the signage, the store itself,
00:52but right down to even, you know, let's take a lunch break,
00:55because that's what you do as part of your normal employment.
00:58So that's quite structured for them.
01:00And the skills provided as part of that will see people come in
01:04so that they can make purchases from the register as well.
01:06So the interaction is very much a mirror of what happens in the supermarket,
01:10but just on a smaller scale.
01:12Tomorrow we'll be opening our 80th Mini Woolies site here at St Giles.
01:16And for us, we see a very good community activity.
01:20As Honi said, the communication skills, the literacy, the numeracy,
01:24the independence, the life skills, and also then that retail experience
01:28that the participants here and at all of our other Mini Woolies get to gain.