wfn.org | TCN:Chinese organizations check out Taiwan’s placement services for the disabled

["Lydia Ma" <enews@pctpress.org>]

>      Taiwan Church News

>2989 Edition

>June 8~14, 2009

Chinese organizations check out Taiwan’s placement services  for the disabled

>Reported by Chiou Kuo-rong

>Written by Lydia Ma

Chinese social service organizations reaching out to people with  disabilities are

sending a delegation to visit Taiwan for the first time. The  delegation’s leader Pan

Yu, who heads an organization for disabled people in Hunan, said  many social

service organizations in China lack on-hand or clinical experience  and it was an

eye-opening experience to visit Taiwan and learn as much as  possible.

The delegation was invited to Taiwan by Eden Social Welfare  Foundation.

According to the foundation, this is the first time that a social  service organization

from China is visiting Taiwan and the main goal of this Chinese  delegation is to

revamp services and increase professionalism among Chinese  organizations by

learning from Taiwan. The delegation consisted of professionals  from Hunan,

>Nanjing, Sichuan, and Guangzhou.

The delegation of 13 arrived to Taiwan on May 31st and Eden  Foundation gave

them a tour of the Bureau of Employment and Vocational Training on  June 2nd

where they saw a call center in action and observed how disabled  people

performed as phone operators. This was the only government  organization that the

Chinese delegation visited during their stay in Taiwan and the  visit received

>significant coverage.

While visiting the call center, Eden CEO Huang Cho-sung told the  delegation that

government and private organizations had collaborated together to  help disabled

people get employment as operators at call centers. The center  they were visiting

had 28 operators so far and all of them were people with  disabilities. These

operators received 3 months of mandatory training before starting  their jobs.

To help disabled people become employed, the Council of Labor  Affairs came up

with the idea of placing them as call center operators and secured  employment

opportunities. Eden Foundation partnered with the Council by  providing human

resources. The Foundation was responsible for recruitment and  training, placing

people in suitable organizations or job positions, and ensuring no  candidate got lost

in the shuffle. As a result of this partnership between public and  private

organizations, a professional, high-quality, and effective  placement service for

>people with disabilities was established.

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