“Pfenningparade Workshop”
Some big business bought the militaries old building and gave it for the association for endowment.
In this building we can find mostly people with physical disabilities the association give them a job what they can do easily. They are paid for hour the worktime is limber, usually they work how much they want but the money motivate them. In this building work 250 people and they live here in some apartment inside the associations territory. The governement pay the half of the rent and they pay the rest. Social workers help them inside of the association. They can find this work in the work division offices, there give them some instruction about this, and there decide that they can work there or not and they get high/level medical treatment.
In the training of specialist the exercise and the experience is more important. Unfortunately we can not find here the inclusion and for this they get many negative critic.
Our group visited four type of job.
Digital Art:
Here works people who had accident they not really have mental disabilities. They work in computers they enjoy it and they know very much what they work ( e.g. calendar, albums, postcards, posters) they try to use this things outside of the association, but Outside they not really find job.
Here works 26 people who has cumulative disabilities, one of them is Adam from Temesvár from Romania and he is very pleased with his experience what he get there.
Bay Wa
Here works people who has cumulative disabilities with paperworks. They work in computers, write the prices , the cods, they do the spots, what is more they do some accounting department. The quality work here is very important and for this here they use check programs. This is the most honored part.
Hand Work & Kunst
In this part the people do just handcraft things. We visited just 3 type of these works: the candle made part, the beading part and the paint part.
In the candle make part works 10-12 people who has cumulative disabilities .They are dressed in work clothes whose make perfectly their job. They make different type of candles. For them the quality work is very important so the candles are very beautiful. They make the forms of candle too and they make some models in the candles. They collect the material for the candles. The sell the candles in the gate of the association where we can find a little shop.
Two girls work with the beading. They collect the materials to and use again. Now they make some Christmas tree ornaments because the Christmas shop is coming. They sell these in the little shop too.
In the paintshop work 20-25 people in workclothes too. They make oil and acrylate pictures, copy them about some postcards. The pictures are very beautiful. I was surprised, because I can not imagine that this people can work as beautiful like this.
With the pictures they go to salons and sell the pictures.
The people who take part of these trainings can use easily their knowledge outside more, they can integrate easier. Unfortunately they not really find job outside and for this they need the Pfenningparads help.
Demeter Eva-Baba
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