EMPLOYMENT OF PEOPLE WITH DISABILITY THROUGH THE PRISM OF SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Social entrepreneurship is recognizable as an efficient way to satisfy the needs of vulnerable categories in the society. Enabling the practical use of the Laws regarding human rights and needs of people at risk, economic strengthening of individuals as to securing a comprehensive support to people through facilitating the approach to resources in the local community. Social enterprises also have an important role in the encouraging of positive social changes meaning social inclusion and opening of new jobs on the open labor market for vulnerable categories of population including people with disabilities.On the other side, the deficit of possibilities for employment for people with disabilities and the lack of a proper system of social security,hinders people with disability to live a dignified life. Such questions require complementary work with proper inclusion of governmental authorities, people with disability and the non-governmental sector.In this direction, social entrepreneurship as a creative force, always follows the need of the community in order to give a response to certain economic and social problems that modern social countries face. In the Republic of North Macedonia, organizational forms acting within social entrepreneurship are often directed toward work integration of people with disability and their inclusion on the open labor market,which combines work approach and carrying out functions with a wider social meaning.This paper analyses the concept of social entrepreneurship as a tool for employment of people with disabilities, emphasizing organizations which have an entrepreneurial mission and act in the Republic of North Macedonia in the direction of employing people with disabilities.