Some time ago, when I went to Guangxi to interview the life and work of the disabled community, I couldn't help but think of a literati anecdote: Yu Hua once said that he and Mo Yan and Liu Zhenyun carried Shi Tiesheng on the train, took him to play football, and made him a goalkeeper. They treat Shi Tiesheng as an ordinary person and not a person in a wheelchair, and take him to see the bigger world together, how precious this mentality and spirit are.
I don't know how to talk to people with disabilities, what tone of voice to use, and I don't know if it will hurt their self-esteem ...... at some pointBefore the interview, I was worried for a long time. But it turns out that treating them with a normal heart is the greatest respect for them.
Whether it is live streaming in the snail flour workshop, doing express customer service at the workstation, or making handicrafts in the cultural and creative base, processing and production ...... in the industrial parkOne of my deepest impressions during the interview is that when they put into work, you naturally ignore their physical disability, and they seem to forget about it. It turns out that they can do as well as able-bodied people, and even better in some areas.
From this, I realized the core of employment for the disabled: what they need is not special care and sympathy, but equal participation in various activities without being treated with colored glasses, and living a social life that is no different from everyone else.
Over the years, the employment of persons with disabilities has gradually achieved gratifying results, and the situation has changed bit by bit - the Three-Year Action Plan for Promoting the Employment of Persons with Disabilities (2022-2024) and the 14th Five-Year Plan for the Protection and Development of Persons with Disabilities and other documents put forward "promoting the formation of a good social environment for understanding, caring for and supporting the employment and entrepreneurship of persons with disabilities", "promoting employment and entrepreneurship of persons with disabilities through multiple channels, and broadening employment channels for persons with disabilities, especially the blind, in the fields of culture and art, mental health and Internet services" and other goals. At the same time, silent restaurants are blooming everywhere, silent riders are shuttling through the streets and alleys, and love workshops are set up ...... peopleMore and more enterprises and social forces are providing jobs for the disabled and creating an employment environment.
A gratifying new phenomenon is that with the empowerment of digital technology and the Internet economy, a variety of new forms of employment have broken the traditional employment models and limitations, providing more choices and possibilities for people with disabilities to pursue their dreams and realize their self-worth. According to data from an audiobook platform, the platform has more than 8,000 disabled anchors, with the largest number of more than 800 million people and the highest annual income of nearly one million yuan; Not long ago, Shanghai's first barrier-free space for the recruitment of people with disabilities was opened, and the "Cloud Interview" service platform provided barrier-free online interview ......
There is still a long way to go from barrier-free employment to truly barrier-free employment, and only by doing a good job of environmental barrier-free can employment be barrier-free. On September 1 last year, the Law on the Construction of a Barrier-free Environment came into force, providing a solid legal guarantee for persons with disabilities to participate in and integrate into social life on an equal, full and convenient basis. It should not be ignored that there are more niche groups in the disabled group in the forgotten corner, for example, there are 12 million people with mental disabilities in China, and their employment rate is less than 5%, which is much lower than the employment rate of other disability groups. How to make the employment of the disabled more qualitative and effective? How to make the policy warm cover more people with disabilities? These need to be explored in practice.
Employment is not only a bridge for the integration of persons with disabilities into society, but also a torch that illuminates their life path. Deng Fengzhu, who founded the Guilin Stone Painting Supported Employment Agency for the Disabled, told me that through skills training, many disabled students have found self-confidence, and some have used the money they have earned to buy their first mobile phone. She will never forget the innocent and bright smiles on the faces of the students when they were complimented.
The body may be crippled, but the love of life will not. When he recalled that time, Stetson wrote: "I was the worst, but the happiest goalkeeper. He has been pushed, carried, and carried by his friends to many places, and he has also rocked his wheelchair through the snowmelt winter, walked over the pulp dirt road, walked past the dripping eaves, walked past the normal eyes along the way, and visited his loved ones.
Shi Tiesheng, who loves life, wrote: "If the branches are broken, the only way to grow in spring is to work hard." "To help people with disabilities find employment, integrate into society, and grow upward, we are also people who carry wheelchairs.