Mentally Handicapped People, Rehabilitation Labor, Ballet Shoes Are Sold Abroad.

Mentally handicapped disabled people go to street rehabilitation stations every day to make ballet shoes, not only developing intelligence, but also earning certain income.

Over the past year, Xuanwu District Taoranting Park Street "Qin Xin" vocational rehabilitation station organized mentally retarded disabled people to make ballet shoes and sold them abroad.

Every Monday, from 8:30 am to 11 p.m., from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m., Xiao Peiqin and Dana, who live in the Taoranting Park street community, will come to the "Xin Xin" vocational rehabilitation station and begin processing ballet shoes according to their respective division of labor.

"They have poor hands-on ability, so the production of ballet shoes is very limited."

Yang Runjie, chairman of the Taoranting Park Street disabled Union, said, "everyone is only responsible for a small link, flow production."

Yesterday morning, the reporter witnessed the birth process of a pair of ballet shoes.

Xiao Peiqin drew the outline according to the shoe, Xu Shuxia tied the upper edge of the upper, Li Fengchun pressed the upper, Wang Zhen used the sewing machine to tie the shoe.

Then 6 men carefully pinched out three pairs of shoes at the toe of the shoe, glued them together with the upper ones. Finally, each female worker Xiao Peizhen and Dana gave each ballet shoe a bow and a bow.

"Let's not see they can easily make more than 10 pairs a day, but at the very beginning, they can make 3 pairs a day."

Yang Runjie said, "in order to master their positions skillfully, they practiced at least three months on the waste cloth."

Nowadays, the production of ballet shoes in community workshops has become the most important thing for Xiao Peiqin and others every day. Their exquisite ballet shoes, such as red, green and pink, have been sold to Australia, Canada and Thailand.

"Making ballet shoes not only allows them to earn up to 100 yuan a month, but also gradually return to normal life."

Yang Runjie said, "Xiao Peiqin, who had made three points in a unreasonable way, is in a good mood now. Zhao Ya, who did not dare to speak in front of people, asked to speak at the more than 100 person's Symposium. Dana, who was born with an idiot, now has a regular life."

According to Li Caimao, deputy director of the Beijing municipal disabled persons' union office, according to the second national sample survey of disabled persons, the city's main data bulletin shows that the total number of disabled persons in the city is 999 thousand, of whom 50 thousand are mentally handicapped, accounting for 5.01% of the total number of disabled persons.

In order to help these mentally handicapped persons improve their intelligence, 183 vocational rehabilitation stations have been opened in the city since last year, and more than ten thousand disabled persons with mental retardation have been doing rehabilitation work here.

Deputy director Li Caimao pointed out that vocational rehabilitation training not only helps mentally handicapped persons improve their intelligence, but also opens up a new way of employment for them to achieve their own value through labor.