Every week since April 2018, B人BEL delivers a program in a migrant school in Shanghai, which focuses on arts for empowerment. In one of our classes, students represented themselves in the present through visuals and shared their dreams through voice recording, which resulted in the video you can see below, as part of our MoreThanMigrants…
By 王竹青 Liu Qingyun was sitting on a wooden stool next to the sidewalk and looked at the row of bicycles in front of her. She was dressed in a work uniform with the words “Traffic Warden” written on it. I assumed that she was coordinating the parking of bicycles there, so I stepped up…
By 王竹青 When I met Yan Xiang, he was pushing a janitorial cart on the second floor of the M mall. When I asked to interview him, he smiled and started to work faster. I told him quickly that I could wait until he finished his work. After finishing his work, he led us through…
A series by photographer Hibshy Samsadin “After being unsettled by the prospects of a financial career in the United Kingdom, I packed my bags, camera, and Hawaiian shirts and flew to China. Over the following year, I’ve had the honour to collaborate alongside an array of NGOs, Journalists, and communities to help children with congenital…
By Zhuqing Wang Walking through the bustling city of Shanghai, you may notice that there are many people who struggle to stick to their daily jobs. They may not sit in office cubicles, they may not hit keyboards as fast as they can, they may not wear suits or carry briefcases, but they work hard…
My name is Yang Lirong, but you can also call me Xizhen. I am from Kunming, Yunnan province. I’m a full-time member of the Disabled Committee in my community. In my spare time, I study psychology, fortune telling, and I do handcrafts with flowers, like preserving fresh flowers and embossing flowers. I have a disability…
Interview with Xiaolong INTERSECTIONALITY : the complex, cumulative way in which the effects of multiple forms of discrimination (such as racism, sexism, and classism) combine, overlap, or intersect especially in the experiences of marginalized individuals or groups Hello! I’m Xiaolong, from Shanxi province. I’m Deaf. I can speak and I know sign language. I often participate…
Buy42 Charity Store is a network of shops selling donated items and using the profits to support individuals with disabilities. I visited the shop, in which the employees are people with disabilities and people who were struggling to be reintegrated in the society – Xiao Lan, an employer who was part of the latter, asserts,…
My name is Wang Zhen, and my English name is Alex. I’m 40 years old. I’m a blind person. I lost my vision in 2009, and with it I lost almost everything. I lost my family, my job, and a lot of other things I was used to having. In that moment, people thought that I…
My name is Zhang Jian. I have had five or six jobs before, and now I work at a travel agency. It is a social enterprise that uses commercial means to solve social issues. It is not entirely about maximizing profits, but also does not rule out profits. I feel that my current life is like…