Job description: Eyes and ears aren’t prerequisites
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JOBS for the hearing- and visually impaired are the goal of numerous charities, advocacy groups and supportive companies in Shanghai.
One of them is the Xuhui District Disabled Persons’ Federation. Last March it handled the case of Li Anji, 24, a hearing-impaired fresh graduate in accountancy at the Shanghai Business School.
Finding a job is tough enough for all graduates this year but more so for the disabled. Li applied for jobs at 119 companies but only about 10 responded. No job resulted.
The district federation put her in touch with Wang Haixing, who heads an employment program for the disabled sponsored by French food service provider Sodexo.
Working with Li, Wang found her a job with the Changning District branch of Jiangsu-based Envision Energy.
Company participation is important in creating employment for the disabled.
Gong Jianhua, 51, a deaf-mute who supports an elderly father with Alzheimer’s disease, has been working for food-delivery platform Ele.me for four years.
According to Zhang Weisheng, who heads a food-delivery station in Jing’an District, Gong approached him in 2016, asking for a job in a written note. He had been working at a similar job in Jiading District but wanted to be closer to home to care for his father.
Zhang said Gong is a diligent, hardworking deliveryman.
In the ensuring four years, three more hearing-impaired people have been hired. Zhang learned some sign language to better communicate with them.
“I give them a job, and they give me a new perspective on life,” he said.
Ma Yinqing, a visually impaired woman in her 20s, creates dubbing jobs for people who are blind or suffer from very poor sight.
Ma initially was trained to do massage, a job many blind people are funneled into, but she chose instead to follow her interest in the dramatic arts.
She established her own little business, called Yin Qing You Sheng, with other visually impaired people. Its work includes dubbing for audio-books and web novels.
The dubbers use screen-reading software to help them navigate the sound-editing software.
The coronavirus outbreak slowed business considerably, but Ma said she is confident it will pick up as life resumes some semblance of normalcy.
Her workshop is going beyond the visually impaired in its hiring. The dubbing team now includes Zhang Yuecheng, a painter with a robotic arm.
So far, the team has dubbed hundreds of books and established connections with several large audio-book platforms.
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