The visually impaired set up a coffee shop

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Costa rica's "black soul" coffee beans taste like a "three good students" with no shortcomings. Africa's Yega snow coffee is like a little boy running in the fields. It tastes bitter. Wei Lin introduced vividly as she weighed the coffee beans by using the cup. If you hadn't seen it with your own eyes, you might not believe that this is a visually impaired person making coffee. Recently, a coffee pop-up shop run by eight visually impaired people was unveiled, which immediately attracted the attention of many citizens.

Since last year, two public welfare organizations have jointly launched a "reshaping DNA" employment support program for people with disabilities, which leads people with disabilities to experience a variety of new industries and explore new employment possibilities for people with disabilities. What they reshape is not the DNA of people with disabilities, but the community's understanding of people with disabilities.

Wen and Tu / Jia Zheng, an all-media reporter from Guangzhou Daily

Would you like a cup of coffee? Wei Lin carefully followed the false edge, folded the filter paper into an arc and put it in the smart cup. Use the spout of the hot water to turn slowly along the wall of the cup to wash the filter paper. The jar of coffee beans was put away in the order of Africa, America and Asia. Wei Lin touched the American coffee, poured out three, and grinded the beans into coffee powder with a coffee machine. Looking at Wei Lin's skillful movements and detailed introduction of various coffee beans, you may not believe that Wei Lin first touched hand-brewed coffee at the end of April this year.

Ah Chong was one of seven other visually impaired people who studied hand brewing coffee with Wei Lin. He bought a hand grinder and planned to open a hand brew coffee shop with friends in the future.

For the visually impaired, when making coffee by hand, the amount of water poured is the most difficult to grasp, because it is impossible to accurately see the scale in the cup. Ah Chong told reporters that they had groped out a set of their own methods. Most people use a scale to weigh coffee beans and water, while the visually impaired will calculate the amount of water needed according to the amount of coffee beans, and measure the amount of water needed with measuring cups of different capacities.

Spoons for measuring coffee beans and cups for measuring water are important to the visually impaired. Using how much to burn can not only ensure the proportion of water, ensure the quality of coffee, but also reduce the risk of being scalded. Ah Chong told the reporter that coffee took him into a whole new world. He had never thought of making hand-made coffee before, but now he found that his coffee was no worse than that of others.

People with disabilities experience "what occupations are there in the world"

Since last year, Guangzhou Gongming Social Organization Development Center and WHYHOW thinking creation Society have jointly launched a disabled employment support program called "reshaping DNA", and the 72-row disabled career experience Group is one of the most popular projects. The sponsor of the project, Nineteen Girl, told the reporter that she once asked a visually impaired person named Huiheng what he wanted to do. Huiheng replied, "you always ask me what career I want to do, but I don't even know what career I have in the world." "

Hui Heng's answer represents the aspirations of this group. Most of them are engaged in massage and customer service work, and they don't know what other jobs are like. "Nine Girls said," in order to broaden their horizons, we want to find some new industries that few people with disabilities are engaged in, take them to experience, and see if their integration with the city can be expanded. "

Up to now, people with disabilities have learned not only the art of making coffee by hand, but also the art of flower arrangement and bamboo weaving. The "experience group" is not just a quick experience, the project does not lower the requirements for people with disabilities.

Nine girls said that in any career, you can't just rely on the word "disability" to win. "in training, we attach more importance to their professional level, such as the identification of coffee beans in different regions and the understanding of different coffee bean flavors."

Hui Heng, who doesn't know "what occupation there are in the world," can not only make coffee skillfully, but also ensure a stable production.

Perceive the world in different ways

In addition to trying to open the door to a new world for people with disabilities and encouraging them to gradually identify with the different ways in which their bodies are used, perceiving the world with their own body senses is another highlight of the reshape DNA project.

Nine girls believe that different people have a very unique perspective in observing the world, so she began to encourage people with disabilities to use writing and to use their bodies to perceive changes in others and the world. In the process of writing, the nine girls did not see that their works were directly related to their education and career, and everyone's life was the same.

The students' works are included in a collection called "in Life", which records their observation of the world. Among them, there are enthusiastic subway workers put oolong to take the wrong destination, as well as the usual chatter with uncle Kanto boil at night.

Although Huiheng did not go to school for a few years, through the writing training camp, he had five articles included in the collection, and several official accounts had asked him for contributions.

Qin Luchao, a visually impaired acupuncturist, said that all the writing he had tried before was document writing. After attending the workshop, he became more fond of life and liked to write about happy and funny things.

People with disabilities are not only satisfied with finding a job.

Yesterday, the project also held a "friendly" barrier-free job fair.

"is friend No. 19 here? Please come for an interview. A volunteer asked job seekers who were waiting in line for an interview, while holding a sign saying "ask friend No. 19 for an interview" to remind hearing-impaired job seekers. Beside her, one of her colleagues is translating "friend interview No. 19" into sign language at the same time. HR leaders of five companies came to the event to communicate face-to-face with job seekers, and each company was equipped with sign language interpreters to facilitate barrier-free communication between the two sides. At 11:00 in the afternoon, when the reporter came to the job fair, the number of people with disabilities who came to apply for the job reached more than 80. According to the reporter, people with disabilities are not only satisfied with finding a job, they are paying more and more attention to their interests and career planning.

At present, many enterprises feel that disability insurance is the main reason for recruiting people with disabilities. Ms. Lin, the relevant person in charge of Flextronics Electronic Technology Co., Ltd., told reporters that Flextronics began to recruit disabled employees in 2015, and there are currently 250 people on the job. most of them are arranged in the workshop assembly line. Since last year, Flextronics has also opened office management positions for people with disabilities, such as assistant managers, purchasing staff and sign language interpreters. Ms. Lin explained that through the analysis of the company's data, it was found that people with disabilities had advantages in on-the-job performance such as turnover, attendance, stability and concentration.