THE 2022 PRIZE, ninth year, " DISABILITY AND TRANSFORMATION for AN INCLUSIVE SOCIETY" > Submitted works > JIA Julin, DISABLED COUPLE IN THE "FACTORY OF THE WORLD", Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, Milano

DISABLED COUPLE IN THE FACTORY OF THE WORLD

Wang Yanping and Li Minqiao are a rural couple from Shandong, China. Since husband and wife are both disabled, the burden of supporting the family has always been on the father, but his father died suddenly of a heart attack, which made the poor family even worse, and husband and wife had to find their own. sustenance. Her husband, Li, suffers from dwarfism and cannot do heavy work. Wang has a congenital disability in his legs. She has always been in a wheelchair. Just when the family was in trouble, the village's lens making workshop gave Li and his wife steady jobs. Wang is responsible for cleaning the lenses, LI becomes the security guard, guarding the business and his wife at the factory gate, and eventually these lenses are shipped to distant Europe and become part of the product. These orders allowed Wang and LI to work to their abilities, they solved the problem of food and clothes for the family, and at the same time they paid the school fees of the youngest daughter, and they pulled this difficult family back from the cliff. The days are getting better and better, they are moving towards ho