Posted AT 10:56 PM EST on 05/09/08
China opening its eyes to the disabled
Li Xinjing, a blind 31-year-old masseur, has heard rumours of a new campaign to help disabled people. But he doesn't dare venture outside to find out if it's true. He considers it still too dangerous for a blind man to walk in Beijing's streets.
“I'm afraid to go out alone,” he says. Instead, he sits in a one-room apartment that he shares with three roommates inside a massage centre – one of the few sources of employment for the 12 million blind people in China.
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