Steven is
20 years old now.
Steven
finished school this year.
Now he is
visiting a workshop for handicapped. They produce things for the industry
like coalbrushes for electromotors. All like Steven, who are not able
to be involved in the process of production, are being taken care
of in supportgroups. These groups are very like the one, when he was
in school. But instead of 8 o`clock in the morning he is being picked
up at 7 o`clock by the bus already and brought back home also 1 hour
later at 4.30.
So Steven
is not going to school anymore, ...but to "work". Different
to those handicapped who can be productive, he and the others in the
supportgroups, do not get payed. But it is a great relief to the parents
to have their "kids" being taken care of ( not stored away!
) weekdays for some hours. You can feel that he likes it very much.