Qilu Evening Newspaper Qilu reporter Wang Qian Intern Liu Nan
in the city center 27 new village street social organization service (hatching) center, the west side of the blind library is very obvious. There are four hundred or five hundred volumes of books and audio discs on the shelves in the house. Since its opening to the end of last year, the community blind library has met the reading needs of visually impaired and blind people, bringing hope to groups in the dark.
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recently, Wang Xiaodong, 57, who lived in Liang Nan community, came to the library of the community for the blind. He was often the first reader in the library. There are other readers who are mostly visually impaired.
Wang Xiaodong suffers from retinopathy due to diabetes, and the effect of cataract makes vision worse. Wang Xiaodong told reporters that his vision began to decline from fifteen to six years ago, and now it is a first-degree disability. "At that time, it was not forty years old, and the vision began to blur. The doctor said the result was blindness. And now there's a skill. " Over the past decade, Wang Xiaodong has been reading with the aid of a visual aids. After the completion of the community library for the blind, he has become a frequent visitor. Now, Wang Xiaodong, who has mastered the technology of massage, not only can help others, but also can read many books, and he thinks that he is not different from the ordinary people.
is also a library's regular visitor 's Ping - ping, an acquired visually impaired person. In 1999, the eyesight of the retina was sharply reduced, and the cataract was added, and it became more and more blurred from 2013.
"after the operation, the doctor told me that when I was old, I didn't recognize my wife's mistake. I was very stressed when I heard this. At present, they are basically going out with their wives, reading and reading newspapers must be under the bright light, and at the same time help them through the magnifying glass. Jing Ping told reporters that the library of the blind has a large typeface book. "It's convenient and comfortable to read here." Jing Ping said that the community's blind library provides a good platform for the disabled. "Although we are disabled, we can read and study like normal people, and we live with dignity."
monthly activities, providing a platform for communication
"in addition to borrowing books, we will have three activities of mutual aid conversation, Braille study group, massage study, once a month, and Braille teachers to teach Braille for everyone." Liu Hao, the executive director of the service Incubator Center for the social organization in the Middle District of the city in charge of the blind library project, introduced the activity is to provide a mutual exchange platform for these special groups to meet their psychological needs and knowledge needs, not only to provide a platform for expanding knowledge, but also to connect more. Social resources help people with disabilities.
"it's fine here. You can communicate with people who have similar experience here." Wang Xiaodong, who just learned how to buy hearing aids, said well.
as a special group, visually impaired people live scattered in the community and seldom have the chance to go out. With the blind library, it has gradually become a platform for big guys to communicate. The library is open to the outside world every day, and reading cards can come to read at any time, and the day of every week has gradually become a fixed day for these special groups, usually after reading books in the library, some of them will learn and learn to massage, and some exchange and communicate on the tea party. Jing Ping told reporters that she learned knowledge of health care and massage, and could return home to his wife.
all visually impaired people in the city
can learn
according to the chief of the Social Affairs Section of the 27 New Village Street office, which is very difficult to buy because of the special publication and distribution of the Braille books. At the beginning of the decision to build the blind library, the operation model of a blind Library in Beijing was used for reference. The street contacted a number of booksellers. It took over a month and a lot of money to order the precious books from other places. The street has bought more than 200 books of Braille, 200 books and more than 100 audio books, including massage, meridian, health, computer, literature and so on.
although the number of library books is still limited compared to ordinary books, these books are well positioned and suitable for visually impaired people, such as health care, massage and massage, and many visually impaired and blind people have tasted the sweetness. Some elderly blind people will come here to choose their own books. "When I have time, I want to learn how to read and listen to books by computer." Jing Ping said with a smile.
27 New Village Street office party director Yan Xiaofang introduced that there are more than 40 disabled people with disabilities in the area. They have learned that these people also have the needs of borrowing books and learning.
in the course of the library operation, the visual barrier is not so serious that it can borrow books from the library on its own. For the inconvenient crowds, the volunteers will go to their homes to read books, read newspapers, and send them to their homes. "Not only the visually impaired people in the area can come, but our library is also facing Ji'nan." Liu Hao said that all visually impaired people with needs in the city can come here to learn and borrow books and certificates.