Care about people with disabilities from details
Hubei Disabled Persons' Federation (HDPF) pays great attention to people with disabilities from details, helping them to live a happy life by concerning about the issues most related to people with disabilities.
During the COVID-19 outbreak, it gave considerate cares for people with disabilities.
On February 14, Jianshi County Disabled Persons’ Federation contact with Youfu hospital of Enshi Tujia&Miao Autonomous Prefecture to buy medicines in great need for people with disabilities. 126 people with disabilities got medicines at the same day.
Expand market for people with disabilities
On June 2, Shiyan city held a live-streaming of E-commerce products online sales for people with disabilities selling their products. At that day, the sales amount exceeded 20,000 yuan (2956 USD).
Offer job opportunity, increase income and improve service for people with disabilities
On June 30, Wuhan Disabled Persons’ Federation deployed its 10 tasks of year 2020, including implementing rehabilitation and assistance system for disabled children, providing rehabilitation service for 2500 disabled children, subsidizing persons with mental disabilities in low-income families, offering home services for at least 1400 severely people with disabilities and training more than 1000 people with disabilities and providing job opportunities for more than 800 people with disabilities.
Encourage people with disabilities to get rid of poverty
More and more people with disabilities become the participants, contributors and beneficiaries of economic and social developments.
The HDPF deep cooperated with media by launching"Focus on the Precision Poverty Alleviation of the Disabled" column to publicize models of people with disabilities in poverty alleviation in order to call on more people to learn from their spirit of hard-working and self-improvement.
The HDPF organized models of people with disabilities from all walks of life to give lectures in poor counties, telling about stories of poverty alleviation in all circles to encourage more people with disabilities to get rid of poverty and to call for social concerns for people with disabilities.
Provide job opportunities and promote entrepreneurship
By the end of 2019, 614,000 registered people with disabilities had got rid of poverty, accounting for 98 percent of the registered people with disabilities.
Since 2016, the HDPF has supported and established 98 entrepreneurship bases for people with disabilities, has supported 3600 rural small stores owners and has trained 3000 technical specialists with disabilities. 71,700 people with disabilities in the Hubei Province have got their jobs.
The HDPF gathered people with disabilities who lack of ability to get job or run business and those who are no rooms to live, helping them live together, work together and get rid of poverty together.
Make people with disabilities live with dignity and quality
At present, since Hubei issued“Rehabilitation and Assistance System for Disabled Children in Hubei Province”, the province's 17 cities (autonomous prefectures) have been released systems of rehabilitation assistance for children with disabilities or means of implementation, which expanded the assistance age to 14 years old to 15 years old and doubled the relief funds. At the same time, it pushed forward home doctor service among people with disabilities. Disability screening was included in the medical examination program of children aged 0-6 years in Hubei Maternal and Child Health Service Information Management system.
Since 2016, the province has 1570,000 people with disabilities enjoyed basic rehabilitation service and has distributed 262,900 suits of assistive apparatus to people with disabilities.
At present, the province has 482,000 people with disabilities who enjoy living allowance for disabled people in need and 683,000 people with disabilities benefit from the care allowance for persons with severe disabilities. The province’s 297,200 registered people with disabilities have been covered with basic living allowances; 65,600 registered people with disabilities have been included in the support program for extremely impoverished people; a total of 59300 persons with disabilities have received support services.
During the epidemic-hit period, the province’s 17 cities (autonomous prefectures) released life support materials with the standard of 500 yuan per person in urban areas and 300 per person in rural areas to persons with disabilities in low-income, severe disabilities and care services.
In addition, the HDPF actively connected with Red Cross Society of China, Han Hong Love Charity Foundation and Red Cross Society of China Hubei Branch, raising 55 million yuan of fund to help rehabilitation institutions, nursing institutions and massage services institutions of the blind for people with disabilities. It gave special supports to the people with disabilities who were hit by the COVID-19 and registered people with disabilities in poverty.
At present, the HDPF cooperated with the Department of Housing and Urban-Rural development of Hubei Province, Hubei Provincial Civil Affairs Department and Poverty Alleviation Office to push forward the reconstruction of dangerous houses and home barrier-free renovation, ensuring that the full coverage of the home barrier-free renovation for registered persons with severe disabilities in 2020. The HDPF also cooperated with China Telecom’s Hubei Branch to push ahead the information barrier-free construction, providing preferential package service for 54,000 people with disabilities.
Since 2016, Hubei has 21,500 poor families with severe disabilities implemented barrier-free reconstruction.
A well-off society in an all-round way can not be less for the disabled. With the joint efforts of the staff for the work of people with disabilities and the good environment of assisting people with disabilities in society, the registered poor people with disabilities can surely get rid of poverty and reach a better life with the whole people in the country.
