When no one wanted to hire his son, this family didn't surrender.
He decided to create a company for him.
Andrew D'Eri had finished school with the same desire as many boys: finding a job and building a future.
But, interview after interview, the same answer always came.
No opportunities.
As it happens today to many people with autism, the problem was not the desire to work.
He was finding someone willing to believe in his abilities.
At that point his family made a decision to change many more lives than theirs.
Brother Thomas, newly graduated in economics, joined his parents to form a simple and courageous idea.
If no one was willing to hire Andrew, they would have created the job he deserved.
So, in Florida, Rising Tide Car Wash was born.
What at first seemed only a gesture of love for a child became, with time, a model of inclusion.
Today the company employs over 90 adults with autism, offering not only a salary, but also training, autonomy, relationships and the possibility to feel valued for what they can do.
And the results speak for themselves.
More than 250 people who have worked with you have acquired skills that have allowed them to find employment in other companies.
Rising Tide Car Wash was not limited to washing cars.
He has shown that when prejudices are lowered instead of excluding people, talent finally finds space to emerge.
Because inclusion is not born of compassion.
Born from someone who chooses to offer an opportunity where others only saw a limit.