US non-profit candy shop employs people with disabilities

Radovich (centre) gives back to the Idaho community by employing people with disabilities. Photos: TNS

Twice a week, Robin Boudwin gets on the Access bus, a paratransit transportation service, from her home in Boise, Idaho, the United States. She arrives at Sweet Zola’s Candy Shop at 7172 Fairview Ave, where she packages candy boxes, trains her colleagues or operates the register.

For the past two years, Boudwin has been working at Sweet Zola’s, a non-profit that aims to help its employees with disabilities learn vital workplace skills in a safe environment. Boudwin has had quadriplegia and said the job has given her more responsibilities than her previous job at a movie theatre in Las Vegas.