Jidapa Nitiwirakun, 21, Thailand (Skills for Jobs)
When Jidapa Nitiwirakun was around one year old, her mother noticed she wasn’t learning to walk. A doctor diagnosed her with muscular dystrophy.
At 21, she’s been able to land a job despite the limitations of living with the condition, including continuing to lose muscle strength each year. In September of last year, she joined the human resources department of Toyota Tsusho’s Thai headquarters, living independently and working remotely from her home in Pattaya, on Thailand’s coastal Chonburi province. The company is the…
