These studios offer various opportunities for people with disabilities to work in sectors like catering, gardening, or decoration. RTL’s Monica Camposeo had a closer look at how a Redange business operated during the lockdown, and how it plans to return to a relatively normal work routine in the near future.
The workshop “Op der Schock” usually employs 56 people with disabilities. However, during the nation-wide lockdown, only its 80 caregivers and team leaders were allowed to work on the different premises.
“Work has changed in a lot of ways, but every task still needs to be fulfilled. So we definitely feel the absence of our employees”, explains Nicole Fisch, director of the Redange workshop.
From 25 May on, people with disabilities will be allowed to return to their daily occupations, although new safety precautions still need to be introduces:
“We have created a strategic folder with all necessary changes that need to be introduced into the daily work routine. We are using pictograms to accurately depict all essential steps and make them as comprehensive as possible.”
As the workshop had been forced to close its doors to the public during the month of March, creative solutions needed to be found to get the products out into circulation. Clients could thus turn to the shop’s online page to make their orders and ultimately pick up the merchandise themselves at the front door:
“We photographed and numbered all our products and uploaded the pictures to our facebook page. Orders can be made via mail at info@ods.lu, which guaranteed that the merchandise could still be sold during the lockdown.”
Thanks to the success generated over the past months, the online shop will continue to stay operational in the future.
