Rongxing Swimming Pool provides fair platform for disabled to pursue dreams

At Rongxing Swimming Pool (榮星游泳池) in Taipei City, the first swimming pool in the country to be set up as a “work shelter”, disabled people are employed to do the less hazardous work like cleaning and reception jobs. Designed specifically with disabled people in mind, the swimming pool truly gives disabled employees an opportunity for self-development.

Customers in possession of a disabled license are entitled to free admission, which includes the use of facilities like wheelchairs and disabled ramps to enter the water. Bathers with poor mobility can even use electric pool lifts to facilitate their descent into the water.

The center actively encourages disabled employees to pursue their dreams and one employee has worked their way up from a cleaning job to holding the position of lifeguard. After becoming aware of this particular employee’s interest in swimming, the coach assisted them in tapping into their own hidden talent and they eventually realized their long-held dream of participating in a disability swimming competition and obtaining a lifeguard license.

Counsellor Xiao-yi (蕭逸) said that in spending each day from morning till night with disabled employees, not only do the disabled employees grow and progress, he too feels a great deal of personal growth.

Rongxing Swimming Pool provides fair platform for disabled to pursue dreams 

URL：https://www.peopo.org/news/296987

(以下是中文對照)

榮星泳池 身障者公平逐夢的舞台

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台北市榮星游泳池是全國第一座以游泳池為名成立的「庇護工場」，在這裡的身障員工，每天的工作大部份是打掃與櫃台等危險性較低的工作，泳池整體環境設計也從身障者角度出發，方便身障員工有發揮的機會。此外，領有身障手冊的泳客可免費入場，在設施部份，也設有身障座椅及入水坡道，行動不便的泳客能夠坐在電動緩降椅上入水游泳。

這裡鼓勵身障員工追求夢想，一名目前在榮星泳池擔任救生員的身障員工，之前在館內從事清潔工作，因為興趣而被游泳教練發掘天份，開始協助他追夢，參加殘障游泳比賽並且考取了救生員執照。而輔導員蕭逸表示，每天與身障員工朝夕相處，成長進步的不僅只是這些員工而已，從旁協助輔導的他也能感受到自己的成長。