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Episode: Luxury chocolate factory provides employment for people with special needs
Description: A luxury chocolate retailer is helping young people with special needs find employment and self-confidence at their factory in Eastern England.
Harry Specters is a chocolate maker with a difference. This social enterprise seeks to employ neurodiverse workers. It was founded by Shaz and Mona Shah, originally from Islamabad in Pakistan. When their son Ash was born, they faced exclusion and discrimination because of his special needs. It was Ash who came up with the name Harry Specters, which he says he plucked from his brain.
Mona always loved chocolate and after enrolling in a chocolate-making workshop, she discovered not...