Packet money

The 30-year-old owner of a shoe-cleaning business in China has hired five workers with disabilities and given them tasks they can perform despite their handicaps.
Weng Xinyi assigned one with a brittle bone disease to record the shoes in the digital files; one who is hearing-impaired to operate noisy equipment; and one with polio to do detailed cleaning because he works slowly and more carefully,” South China Morning Post (SCMP) reports.
Weng believes that persons with disability have their advantages and they should be given opportunities to work. Besides, Weng is a PWD herself, having lost an arm and a leg in a road crash in 2020, and she wears a prosthetic leg.
Weng has also volunteered as a public voice for the Disabled Persons Federation, spreading her optimism to more people, and she is a social media influencer with nearly 500,000 followers, according to SCMP.
Her generosity not only attracts customers that boost the earnings of her business in southern China’s Guangdong province, but this has extended to other businesses run by PWDs.
As generous as Weng is a 21-year-old jewelry shop owner in Xuchang, Henan province, China.
The owner hosted a dinner for employees of his eight shops and gave away tens of thousands of yuan in cash in a money-grabbing activity, The Standard (TS) reports.
He also gave each employee a one-gram gold note with his signature, worth about 500 yuan, and a 10,000-yuan red packet to each of two pregnant employees, according to TS.
Recognizing mothers’ dual efforts at work and at home, the generous employer, who was not named, also pledged 10,000 yuan for the pregnant employees’ first child and 20,000 yuan for their second, with full pay and job security during maternity leave, TS adds.
