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Qingqing comes from a remote mountainous area, a family of eight. Because of employment opportunities, they moved to a small city. Her father is a truck driver and her mother works in a factory. She has an 80-year-old grandma, a younger brother, a pair of twin sisters in junior high school, and a sister in the sixth grade. Each of the four sisters suffer from albinism with only 0.1 vision.
As a left-behind child, Qingqing grew up in her hometown and attended a regular public school. Because of terribly poor vision, her nose was close to the paper while she read and wrote. None of the four sisters knew about schools for the blind, let alone knew blind people could have different options for careers besides massage and music.
The impact of poverty and being visually impaired are challenges Qingqing faced every day. Strange looks from others, the uncertainty of the future, and inexhaustible helplessness was all she knew. After many hardships, Qingqing graduated with a university degree related to education in 2018. She had the opportunity to go to Hong Kong and participate in a vocational training course set up by the Dialogue in the Dark Foundation. During that six-month training and internship, she learned about the lives of other visually impaired people for the first time. She discovered visually impaired individuals can also have regular and professional jobs. Uncle Peter, the founder of Rainbow Missions, was one of her mentors. During her stay, she visited many institutions and organizations run by individuals with visual impairments. These visits opened her eyes to opportunities and broadened her perspectives.
After the internship, Qingqing returned home and contacted local charities for the disabled. Her experience and professional training not only helped Qingqing secure her current clerk job in a foreign bank but also nurtured and strengthened her dream of supporting the education of visually impaired children. To realize this dream, Qingqing used her spare time over the past two years to visit a school for the blind and establish a trusting relationship with teachers and parents. Her focus is helping visually impaired children improve their ability to live independently. In addition, she also helps care for a child with ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder). She successfully established a stable relationship and spends time to accompany and guide the child. Utilizing her university training, she partners with a charity to provide online homework tutoring for disabled children. Occasionally she helps promote employment opportunities for them as well.
When it comes to her dream, some people say Qingqing is a bit naïve because there are few special education institutions and most are under development. It is challenging and difficult. Frankly, Qingqing does not know what she can do to provide better education for disabled children in the future. What she does not want to see is a repeat of her family’s tragedy: Her father had hearing problems a few years ago and the family spent a great deal of money seeking medical treatments. Eventually, an expensive hearing aid was purchased. That same year, her 14-year-old brother was forced to drop out of school due to their financial crisis. This was painful to her and her brother. Like her brother, she doesn’t want to see more disabled children lose opportunities for an education, so she tries to do everything she can to help them.
In addition to working hard and enthusiastically participating in helping disabled children, Qingqing is also taking IELTS exams in preparation for going abroad for a master’s degree in special education. To reduce her financial burden and allow her to prepare for further studies with peace of mind, her visually impaired twin sisters received funds from the Rainbow Missions’ sponsorship program. As such, Qingqing can continue to work hard and focus on actualizing her dream to provide better education for disabled children.
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清清的夢想
清清來自偏遠的山區，一家八口，因父母的工作，現居小城市，父親是貨車司機，母親是工廠包裝工人。家裡有八十高齡的奶奶，有弟弟，一對雙胞胎妹妹讀初中二年級，和一個最小的妹妹，現讀小學六年級。四姐妹都患有白化病，僅有0.1的視力，屬於視力殘疾四级。
清清作為留守兒童，在家鄉長大，在普通學校上課，讀書寫字時，眼睛幾乎貼在書本上。四姐妹都沒有機會去盲人學校讀書，閉塞的成長環境使她沒有選擇，她並不知道有專門的盲人學校，甚至也不知道盲人可以有其他的職業。
在貧困的家境與視障的壓力是清清每天面對的挑戰，別人異樣的眼光，前途的不確定，說不盡的辛酸與無奈，幾經辛苦，清清在2018年大學畢業。因為一次非常偶然的機會，她有機會去到香港，參加了黑暗中對話基金會設立的職業培訓課，在為期半年的培訓實習中，她第一次了解到其他視障者及失明人士的生活，也是她第一次發現原來視障人士也能有正常及專業的工作，像她其中一位導師，彩虹工程創辦人Peter叔叔一樣，她還參訪了很多視障人士設立的機構/組織，使她「眼界」大開。
實習過後，清清回到內地，也開始接觸當地的殘障公益機構。過去的經驗與專業培訓，不僅幫助清清獲得現在外資銀行的文員工作，還孕育並堅定她的夢想——為視障兒童教育出一分力。
為了實踐這個小小的夢想，在過去兩年，清清利用她業餘的時間，走進盲校，與學校和家長們建立了信任的關係，更得到他們的認可，她的重點在於幫助視障兒童提升他們獨立生活的能力，另外她也在關心一名多動症兒童，建立了穩定關係，定期陪護疏導。清清在大學的主修和教育有關，所以她也和一個公益機構合作，為殘障家庭的健全孩子做線上功課輔導；她更幫助朋友的公益團隊，促進更多殘障者就業。
談到她這個夢想，有人說清清實在有點天真，因為在內地的特殊教育機構本來就不多，而且很多都是正在發展當中，要實現這個夢想，談何容易？會不會把路越走越窄？坦白說，其實清清也不知道未來到底能為殘障兒童教育做些甚麼？但她不想再看到悲劇重演：她的父親幾年前耳朵出現問題，家裡動用了大筆資金給父親求醫，也配備了昂貴的助聽器，聽力才得到一定改善。那年，她的弟弟才十四歲，但因家庭負擔被迫輟學在家，這是清清的痛，她不想看到更多殘障孩子像她弟弟一樣失學，所以她努力把她能做的都努力做好，能幫助一個人就盡力去幫。
除了努力工作，熱心參與幫助殘障兒童外，清清也在準考雅思，為來年出國修讀特殊教育碩士做準備。為了減輕她的經濟負擔，也讓她可以相對地安心作進修的預備，清清的兩位雙胞胎視障妹妹已經在彩虹工程的助學計劃中得到資助，這樣她就可以繼續努力，邁向將來為更多殘障兒童出一分力的夢想。