Changing Your Mind–Interview with Weina Meng on Working Problems of Intellectually Disabled People
Speaking of their employment situation, there are always loopholes in the system. Though the policy stipulates that at 1.5% of positions in a state-owned company should be given to disabled people, few companies are, if any, willing to take in the mentally disabled. A covert agreement is reached between companies and parents of the mentally disabled that their kids can be registered as an employee but cannot work there. So the parents get a promised welfare for their children while the company gets off a policy burden.
When Media Goes Non-profit: How Green Earth Volunteers Gathers Force
Influence the influential—a media rule that could also govern non-profit industry—entices to media’s appeal while delivering charitable value. With that, media workers echo warmly, empowering the voice of eco-protection.
Serve, Not Only Give: Talk with Guo Bin on Migrant Schools
For years we’ve been researching on our practice, which has become precious experience,” said Guo full of hope, “We realize the experience should be known to more people. So in collaboration with Narada Foundation, we’ll build a migrant school. There we’ll experiment on our experience. If it works, we’ll introduce our practice countrywide. The scheme has already been on agenda. I believe the future of migrant schools lies in professional and non-profit service, rather than donating to build more of them. Professional practice enables the migrant children to get the same level of education as urban children while, non-profit service would earn constant public attention to this problem.
Songs that Carry Dreams:An Interview to Sun Heng, Director of Rural Workers’ Band
More significantly, rural workers are armed with the power to have their say in cultural and other social issues. They are no longer receivers of ideas that elite class impose on them; when they are tied into one string, they are producers and spreaders of their own culture. The top-down pattern has been taken on by a more equal one. The spiritual strength given to rural workers is another tool of protecting their benefits.
Marketing Management: Something to Mull Over for NPOs
“Despite the registration barricades for NGO, many of them find their own way of survival. So competition is intensive for financial and material donations. “To convince people or the government to back your project and your organisation, you have to treat them like customers. Without influence and trust, you are rejected from donations. So running an NPO requires marketing, mass communication and promotion as well,” so did Ta put his theory.
Serve, Not Only Give: Talk with Guo Bin on Migrant Schools
“For years we’ve been researching on our practice, which has become precious experience,” said Guo full of hope, “We realize the experience should be known to more people. So in collaboration with Narada Foundation, we’ll build a migrant school. There we’ll experiment on our experience. If it works, we’ll introduce our practice countrywide. The scheme has already been on agenda. I believe the future of migrant schools lies in professional and non-profit service, rather than donating to build more of them. Professional practice enables the migrant children to get the same level of education as urban children while, non-profit service would earn constant public attention to this problem.”
Road to Civic Society—Dialogue with Zhai Yan, Executive Director of Beijing Huizeren Human Service Centre
Since volunteer culture and volunteer training mechanism have not taken root in China, the ambition always hits the wall to put all volunteers in the right place. A more reliable model lies in the concept of “civic society” where government indirectly rules the society. In this society, enterprises are the first option; they roll out products based on market rules. People that cannot afford market products could appeal to non-profit organisations. Government only plays a coordinator role between profit and non-profit sectors by issuing policies and organising procurement.
Value Fulfilment and Route Exploration—A Visit to One-plus-one International Exchange Center
Mid-January 2008—in the “Good luck, Beijing!” International Wheelchair Basketball Friendship Games emerged two vision-impaired journalists from One-plus-one Studio of One-plus-one Cultural Exchange Center. Their presence captured spotlight because their studio is the first radio production team by vision-impaired people that fulfils the whole chain from interview to programming to broadcasting. Its regular programs have now covered over 60 radio stations all around the country.
Gao Shan, chief of the organization, once pointed out in an interview that if blind people could be active part of main social events and make their voice, it would be a good practice for disabled people to be melting to society and to fulfil their value. An NGO established and run by the disabled, One-plus-one has been dedicated to tracking social development, delivering the public’s voice as well as exploring the operation of social benefit enterprises.
Where Respect is Derived: An Interview to Beijing Hong Dandan Edu-Culture Communication
Long depressed in the dark of social discrimination, the handicapped people are so vulnerable to cold eyes and scorns, so feared to lose dignity, so curled up to fend off injustice that they forget how to open their hearts to the world that has already opened its arms. Blind pursuit of respect, as is the problem for many blind, has distorted them. As the solution, we need to show them our care, and enlighten them how to gain respect, not to beg or to defy.
A World in a Village —A Reporter’s Diary
Her professionalism stood out in every respect. “For curtains, go to large hotels because they spend regular time on the disposal of used stuff,” she sounded particularly eloquent when talking about operational experience, “But if you want social support, you’ll need a media platform. Other than that you need good ideas.”
