TEDxGuangzhou (TEDxXiguan) 2014-2023

残障并不等于潜力有限

Trudy Staalman

她和丈夫将全部精力都投入到与残障人士的工作中。她坚信，虽然残障人士可能在某些方面有所缺失，但他们的潜力与其他人是完全平等的。社会不应将他们拒之门外，大多数情况下，这种排斥仅仅是因为社会对他们的陌生和不了解。这种现象同样存在于其他被边缘化的群体，仅仅因为社会缺乏对他们的认知和理解。

1989年，她开始在贵阳的地方孤儿院做志愿服务。从1992年起，这成为了她的主要职业。从那以后，她逐步致力于为残障儿童和青少年提供帮助，支持他们挖掘并实现自己的潜能。

Handicapped does not Mean Limit on Potentials

Trudy Staalman

She and her husband have totally devoted their lives to working with handicapped people. She believes that although the handicapped people might have lost something, but they have equal potential to other people. Society should not push them away and most of the cases are simply because the society is not familiar with them. This applies to other “groups” of people been pushed away only because they are not known and the society is not making effort to know them.

In 1989, she started volunteering at local orphanages in Guiyang. From 1992 onwards, this became her main vocation. Since then, she increasingly sought to work for handicapped children and young people, to help them reach their given potential.