The "Silent" Cafe Love Post in Xining, Qinghai Province helps the deaf-mute to find jobs

On a pedestrian street in Xining, Qinghai, there is a milk tea shop with a steady stream of customers every day. On the face of it, this shop is no different from other stores, but everyone who enters the store to order will find that the waiters in this shop are deaf and mute.

The store opened in March 2017. Because of his work, shopkeeper Zhang Yang came into contact with deaf-mute people for a long time before opening a milk tea shop. Until the opening of her milk tea shop, she made a decision that the waiters in the shop would recruit deaf-mute people.

[contemporaneity] coffee shop owner Zhang Yang

That is, I already know a lot about the deaf, so I think I will continue to do this, because among the disabled, you want to be physically disabled, it is easy for him to communicate, it is not difficult for him to find a job, he can express his sadness, but the deaf can't, so I have been doing this.

Zhang Yang is a post-80s generation. She began to come into contact with the deaf-mute group four years ago. In her daily contact with deaf-mute friends, she decided to use her business to help the deaf-mute. From running a factory to hiring deaf-mute people to today's milk tea shop, most of these clerks are his employees and friends for many years. At the same time, three deaf-mute couples came together in her witness. Zhou Yonggang is a small foreman in her store. Because of the underdeveloped ear canal, his hearing is not as sharp as that of ordinary people, but he is good at sign language and there is no problem with some simple language communication.

Coffee shop clerk Zhou Yonggang

It feels like the elder sister treats us like relatives, so we call her elder sister, just like the elder sister and younger brother, and really like the family. / / this is my first job and my future job. It's like my second home.

It is better to teach people and fish than to teach people and fish. This is the starting point for Zhang Yang to help the deaf-mute. She does not want to help the deaf-mute just temporarily alleviate their difficulties. She also hopes that through her own help, the deaf-mute can master the skills to make a living. I hope that every shop assistant can be independent and self-reliant on the road of life.

[contemporaneity] coffee shop owner Zhang Yang

Now I always feel that I am every small shop that has developed, giving others a sense of warmth, allowing social people to accept the deaf, the disabled, and give them a fair employment platform. but the problem is that the development of a storefront is not as stable as the development of enterprises, so I will now help some disabled people and train them to work in stable enterprises. In this way, I believe they will also increase a lot of self-confidence.