They told her several times that she wasn't the right person for that job. Collette Divitto stopped waiting for someone to offer her an opportunity and decided to create it.
After completing a university program at Clemson University, he long sought a paid employment. Collette, born with Down syndrome, participated in several talks, but continued to receive the same answer: it was not considered suitable.
In 2015, he transformed a passion cultivated as a child into a concrete project.
He began to prepare cookies and founded in Boston Collettey’s Cookies. The first important order came from a store in his neighborhood. Then his history became known, demands increased and activity began to grow.
Over the years the company has sold hundreds of thousands of biscuits and has exceeded the million dollars of sales. A result often unequivocally told as if it were the certified economic value of the enterprise.
But for Collette the most important goal is not only about the recesses.
His company also employs people with disabilities and carries out a precise mission: to demonstrate that a limit attributed by others does not define the abilities of a person.
Collette has also created a non-profit organization to help other people with disabilities develop professional skills and find work opportunities.
The waste received did not disappear from his story.
They became the reason why he decided to build a door that others could cross.