BAKING HELPS DIFFERENTLY-ABLED GET INDEPENDENCE AND SELF -VALUE|手作烘焙學專長 啟智技訓中心飄麵包香

Qi Zhi Vocational Training Center provides training opportunities for people with either intellectual, physical or both disabilities a chance of employment. The bread factory offers them a chance to do everything independently and establish self-value through baking. Most of the bread from the factory, goes to the cafe near by, where the disabled can have the chance to interact with customers directly, eventually enhance their competitiveness in society and ultimately promote their chance of open employment. Forming the dough into a round shape and gently placing it onto the baking tray. This is no ordinary kitchen. This is the Qi Zhi Vocational Training Center. It's a place where the disabled can enjoy the opportunity to learn life skills through baking. ==MEMBER, Qi Zhi Vocational Training Center== I usually get here around 7am, if there's a lot of orders. (What do you bake?) I can make Taiwanese style bread such as pineapple bun, taro, macha, red beans and almond-taro buns. I really like this job because I have improved a lot. One may be mixing the dough; one will be in charge of measuring and another do the packaging. Depending on their capabilities, each of the member receives one particular task. The person that's always around, teaching, assisting, reminding them patiently and repeatedly is their teacher. He is also the bakery chef. ==LUO WEI-CUNG, Bakery Chef== Our job here is not just finishing our own tasks. We also have to teach them. They don't learn as fast as the others out there. Some might take months or even a year to show the achievements. Basically, we just have to repeat and repeat. After a while, they can recognize the types of the bread. Some cannot read numbers, therefore we will find accommodations to assist them. To teach the students recipes, Chef Luo developed a system where one job would be divided into multiple tasks for each student to accomplish. As the students go through each step, there are tools that are made to increase their independence, such as clearly marked timers, and the squares on the baking tray is designed in a way that the students can have a visual cue of where to put the dough. Most of the freshly baked bread from the bread factory goes to this cafe. This place provides employment opportunities for people with either intellectual or physical disabilities to serve food, gourmet coffee and some homemade bakery products. It's also a great place for them to engage in social integration and an opportunity to demonstrate their abilities and talent. ==TIM LEE, Qi Zhi Vocational Training Center Executive Director== The work that they do when they fist come here will be fixed. Of course, we hope that they will continue to improve their skills. So when they are more familiar with everything, we will also do some training on site. This is still more of a sheltered workshop, and we would like to see if other organizations can accept them. Therefore, we don't wish to open up a lot of shops. We'd rather see the public and more organizations hire them directly. That's our goal. Both of these places are truly an incredible opportunity for those who work here to be able to participate in the major activity of every adult's life. This shows that they do have the ability to be successful at the workplace, and all they need is more acceptance in society and more opportunities offered by the government and organizations. TRANSLATED BY：STELLA TU 麵團搓成一顆顆圓球，再放入烤盤上的空格，這些輔具，都是為了方便學員們使用與操作。這裡，是桃園啟智技訓中心的中央烘焙坊，身心障礙學員們，用他們的雙手，變出香噴噴又美味的歐式麵包。 ==啟智技訓中心學員 阿元== 我差不多七點 有訂單一多 我就七點早點到 然後就早點做 (我會做)台式 波蘿 芋頭 還有抹茶紅豆 還有 杏仁芋頭 我最喜歡這份工作 因為我進步很多 從揉麵、烘烤到包裝，都是學員們一點一滴累積的成果。在他們身邊，不斷耐心提點的這一位，是羅瑋創，原本他對烘焙一竅不通，為了指導學員，他努力學烘焙，再把經驗傳授給學員。 ==烘培工場師傅 羅瑋創== 那我們在這邊的工作 我們不只要把工作完成 我們還要去教導他們 因為他們教導 並不像外面 我們一般一講 也許很快可以進入狀況 他們也許幾個月 甚至一年以後才能看出成果 其實反覆的教啦 其實教久了 他們針對我們的麵包品項 他認得 數字 他們不懂 我們就想辦法看有沒有輔具 來幫助他們 瑋創師傅把複雜的流程，轉化成簡易的方式，有時候一個流程，必須切成好幾個步驟，讓學員們分工合作練習。隨著辛苦製作的麵包一個個出爐，學員們也越來越有自信與成就感。 認真地打奶泡，每個步驟毫不疏忽，這裡除了有咖啡，烘培工場出爐的麵包，也都送到這裡來販售。開放式的餐飲空間，是身心障礙朋友面對人群的好機會，透過與消費者直接互動，學員們的努力,也漸漸受到肯定。 ==啟智技訓中心執行秘書 李施德== 可能一開始進來工作內容 或項目比較固定 當然希望他們技能也不斷一直提升 所以他們熟悉之後 他們可以學其他東西的時候 還是會在現場做直接的訓練 (這裡)還是比較是一個庇護性的 就業場所 當然我們希望看到的是 他們可以在一般性的 就是一般的企業都能夠接受他們 所以我們的想法不是說 自己要開很多很多的店 而是希望社會大眾 更多的企業能夠願意直接的僱用他們 這其實是我們最終的期望 無論是在烘焙坊還是咖啡廳工作，這群身心障礙朋友，努力克服先天的不足，一步一腳印, 開發潛能.他們最需要的，是政府與民間給更多機會, 讓他們能與一般人一樣，透過訓練、培養專長,靠自己的力量獨立謀生! 記者 涂恩晨 劉漢麟 桃園市報導