Ep. 1 Life Accidents - Easy-to-read

00:00:01: A

00:00:04: digital future for everyone.

00:00:06: The Digital World is important!

00:00:08: The Digital world includes things like computers, the internet and mobile phones.

00:00:13: Many things happen online these days.

00:00:15: Everyone should be able to use the Digital World.

00:00:18: Sometimes that isn't easy.

00:00:20: You can find help on the website www.soumendigital.lu.

00:00:23: you'll find lots of information there For example places where you get help Courses when learning new stuff advice from experts, videos and guides that explain the digital world in simple terms.

00:00:36: These services are available throughout the country of Luxembourg.

00:00:40: Would you like to find out more?

00:00:41: Then visit the website www.zusumendigital.lu.

00:00:45: This site is run by the Ministry for Digitalization.

00:00:48: You can also find a link In the episode description

00:01:01: For example, a parking space.

00:01:06: What is this podcast about?

00:01:09: In the country of Luxembourg there are a lot of persons with disabilities.

00:01:13: The word disability means A person has difficulties for example with walking With hearing or thinking.

00:01:20: A lot of people with disability work But not all of them find work easily.

00:01:25: in these podcasts we talk to persons who have disabilities About their works Something that also want us say.

00:01:32: A lot of persons are not born with disabilities.

00:01:36: A lot people get their disability later in life, for example because an accident or a sickness.

00:01:43: This can happen to any person.

00:01:46: Julien is forty five years old.

00:01:48: He's a chef.

00:01:50: Chef means he cooks food.

00:01:52: At the age of fifteen.

00:01:54: he started working as a chef and worked in France And in Luxembourg.

00:01:59: He also worked in a restaurant with three Michelin stars.

00:02:04: That is an award for the good restaurant.

00:02:07: Then Julian's life changed completely.

00:02:10: One night, Julian's heart stopped beating.

00:02:13: This was called a heart attack.

00:02:16: His girlfriend noticed She tried to give first aid.

00:02:21: she called emergency number one-one two.

00:02:24: The fire service arrived at seven minutes.

00:02:28: They saved Julian During tell-us, what happened that night?

00:03:09: Julien says he was very lucky.

00:03:11: His girlfriend saved his life, and the fire service arrived very fast.

00:03:17: After the heart attack, Julien had to relearn everything.

00:03:20: He had to re-learn how to speak walk And eat.

00:03:25: The heart attack also made faking harder for Julien.

00:03:28: This is called A cognitive disability.

00:03:32: The word cognitive means thinking and understanding.

00:03:36: Julian has difficulties when he short-term memory, for example.

00:03:40: That means... He forgets very fast what just happened!

00:03:45: Julian explains how his life changed.

00:04:08: Julian says he will learn everything, even speaking.

00:04:12: When he woke up in a hospital his first spoke in German.

00:04:16: Julian tried to go back to work as chef.

00:04:19: He sent alot of letters.

00:04:21: Some restaurants wanted to speak with him, but it did not work out.

00:04:26: The restaurant wanted Julian to work very fast But Julie cannot work fast anymore.

00:04:30: after his heart attack.

00:04:32: during then found the shattered workplace.

00:04:36: In French this is called atelier de conclusion professionnel.

00:04:41: This is a workplace for persons with disabilities.

00:04:44: .The Work there Is good for Julian.

00:04:47: There's less stress.

00:04:49: The workers and a manager are more patient and nice.

00:04:53: Julien now works at a compulsion in Wilts.

00:04:57: There is the kitchen there, he can work there as chef.

00:05:01: Julien explains why things go well for him there.

00:05:17: Julien says it works because nobody puts him under stress.

00:05:21: Stress would be too much for him.

00:05:23: That is why it works so well!

00:05:26: Martina worked as a translator, she worked at computer company.

00:05:31: After five years She got new place to work.

00:05:34: She was the manager of group of computer specialists.

00:05:38: She enjoyed that.

00:05:39: Then she went on holiday and had an accident.

00:05:43: Martina talks about her work before the accident.

00:05:46: I felt good.

00:06:06: Martina says she enjoyed her work.

00:06:09: It was never boring!

00:06:11: Martina and her husband are scuba divers.

00:06:14: Scuba diving means you go on the water, look out at everything.

00:06:17: They flew to Egypt to go diving While swimming to the surface, something went wrong.

00:06:23: Martina had a diving accident.

00:06:26: This is called a decompression accident.

00:06:28: The word decompression means... ...the pressure in your body changes when you swim on the surface.

00:06:34: If this happens too fast, then the body can be damaged.

00:06:38: Martina tell us about that accident.

00:06:43: We are completely normal in the water and we did our dive.

00:07:05: And while getting up

00:07:12: Artina says she went into the water normally.

00:07:15: While swimming to the surface, something went wrong.

00:07:18: She had a diving accident.

00:07:21: Martina then spent two weeks in the decompression chamber.

00:07:26: This is a special room made of metal In this room, The air is all very good quality!

00:07:33: The Air has a lot of oxygen.

00:07:35: Oxygen is good for body.

00:07:38: The oxygen helps Martina to get better.

00:07:42: She was brought back to Luxembourg by rescue helicopter Air Rescue.

00:07:48: After that she spend another month at hospital.

00:07:51: as true as that The accent left Martina with a lot of disabilities.

00:07:57: She has paralysis in her legs, that means the legs do now work well.

00:08:03: She sometimes cannot control her movements In her left ear.

00:08:07: she can hear almost nothing.

00:08:09: Martina explains her disabilities.

00:08:22: Impulse that are not wanted, actually.

00:08:26: So it can happen once I give out a shot with my foot.

00:08:30: It's inconvenient if someone is standing in front of me.

00:08:36: Paraparesis also brings problems with itself in the area of digestion and bladder.

00:08:54: And so did i.

00:09:00: Martina says she has trouble while walking.

00:09:03: Her legs are paralyzed and her left ear, She can hear almost nothing.

00:09:10: After one year of sickness, Martina wanted to go back to work.

00:09:14: That was clear.

00:09:16: She started with two hours of work per day.

00:09:19: In the morning before work, she had therapy.

00:09:23: then she went to work.

00:09:26: Then she slept for the rest of the day and it was very exhausting.

00:09:31: Martina tell us what returning to work was like.

00:09:49: There you learn how to make information easy to understand.

00:09:52: Infohandicap works every day to defend the rights of people with disabilities so that they can make their own decisions Together.

00:10:01: we are proud to support this podcast.

00:10:03: Every voice is important, every voice can help change our people thing even if it's just by one centimeter.

00:10:10: Find us at accent.lu and infohandicup.lu.

00:10:14: Digital

00:10:18: for everyone.

00:10:19: There's a special week in Luxembourg.

00:10:21: It is called Digital Inclusion Week, it takes place from November twenty-three to November twenty eight.

00:10:26: twenty-twenty six.

00:10:28: The Ministry for Digitalization is organizing the week.

00:10:32: Other organizations are helping.

00:10:34: You can take part in activities all over the country.

00:10:38: there Is digital inclusion fair?

00:10:40: The Fair is open to everyone!

00:10:42: There you get information about various digital offers.

00:10:47: You can participate online.

00:10:49: Everyone can take part!

00:10:51: We look forward to seeing you there.

00:10:53: Digital inclusion means everyone should be able use digital services, for example find information on the internet or make an appointment.

00:11:02: You can also find all of this information at www.digitalvore.lu website.

00:11:07: You will also find a link in the episode description.

00:11:17: Then home.

00:11:18: And then she was completely tired.

00:11:22: After a while, Martina gave up her position as manager.

00:11:27: That's the right decision for her.

00:11:29: She also had little girl Every morning therapy and a lot of work.

00:11:35: All that together is too much As simple translator...she could keep working In twenty-five.

00:11:46: Martina's office moved The new offices far away.

00:11:50: Martina cannot take the bus to work anymore.

00:11:54: When her disability, taking the bus has become too difficult.

00:11:58: She needs a parking space near the entrance of the company and she needs a Parking Space Near The Toilets.

00:12:08: They ask for a Parkingspace by email.

00:12:11: Martina Tells What Answers She Got.

00:12:34: Martina says the answer was, can't you take the bus?

00:12:38: She was very shocked.

00:12:41: The new office had enough parking spaces but Martina did not get one or.

00:12:47: this stressed her to Martina for two months Martina could not sleep well.

00:12:53: Her body did not have as much strength.

00:12:56: She could now walk well, she was tired and sad.

00:13:00: Latina tell us how she was doing during

00:13:09: that time?

00:13:47: Martinez says she could not sleep well.

00:13:51: She can now walk well, she simply was NOT doing well.

00:13:55: Martinez's husband always says Martin's husband says all of this because of a parking space.

00:14:14: Martina says for a lot of persons, the parking space is nothing but for her a parking spaces access to work.

00:14:22: in the end martin decided to take earlier retirement.

00:14:26: that means she stops working earlier than planned.

00:14:30: What is an Atelier Déclusion Professionnel?

00:14:34: It's a workplace for persons with disabilities.

00:14:38: You need an official document to work there.

00:14:40: This document says, the person has the status The difficult word it statue de salarie handicapé.

00:14:48: This is an official documents from the country of Luxembourg.

00:14:52: this document say that someone have a disability.

00:14:55: When in this document you can apply for job?

00:14:58: atelier An official group of people decided if you can work there.

00:15:04: Working in Atelier is will-work, the person on their have a will contract.

00:15:09: they have will responsibilities.

00:15:12: They works just like you and me.

00:15:15: Sarah Albrecht is director of Comparation in Wilts.

00:15:20: The comparison isn't atelier.

00:15:22: Sarah albrecht tell us what to work looks like there.

00:15:42: Sao Obrets says, the persons there have will responsibilities.

00:15:47: They really cook together with their team and they can take part in decisions.

00:15:53: In an atelier you earn a minimum wage.

00:15:56: For Julian for example that is less money than before.

00:16:01: Jürgen used to earn more money, he hopes one day receive the qualified minimum wage.

00:16:09: That's little bit more money then normal minimum wage.

00:16:14: He needs work two years in atelier for that.

00:16:18: Jürner tell us what matters to

00:16:21: validate that and get a minimum salary.

00:16:27: I've always had since then.

00:16:37: Julian says he worked thirty years as the chef, He wants those thirty years to be seen.

00:16:43: Julian hopes to earn more money again one day.

00:16:47: Where do we need help?

00:16:49: InfoHenicap is an organization in the country of Luxembourg.

00:16:53: They helped persons with disabilities.

00:16:56: Info Henicap gives information to persons.

00:16:59: They help persons with problems.

00:17:02: The minister for inclusion in the country of Luxembourg is called Max Hahn.

00:17:07: In the county of Luxenburg, there's not yet a big place where questions and help That plan.

00:17:14: it's called one stop shop.

00:17:17: that means One Place Where You Can Ask Everything.

00:17:21: For example How Do I Get A Parking Space?

00:17:24: how do i find work?

00:17:26: Where can I live?

00:17:28: This one Stop Shop already exists but It Is Small.

00:17:32: For example, info handicap.

00:17:34: But the bake won't stop.

00:17:35: shop is still to come.

00:17:38: What do we learn?

00:17:42: The job market often not good for persons with disabilities.

00:17:46: That needs change.

00:17:49: Workplace need help persons more.

00:17:52: You don't have a lot of people.

00:17:56: Sometimes it's this one centimeter.

00:17:59: In next part We talk Michelle Valentini and Drell Smith.

00:18:05: They are self-employed, that means they're their own boss.

00:18:10: Subscribe to the podcast so you don't miss any part!

00:18:41: InfoHandicap is open from Monday to Friday.

00:18:51: You can read more information on their website www.info-handicap.elu.

00:19:03: UFAP is a training center, the training courses are for people who work in social service or care.

00:19:16: disability and inclusion, working with children and young people.

00:19:22: Every year UFFEP offers a program with different training courses.

00:19:26: Do you need a different training course?

00:19:28: UFFEP can help prepare a training course especially for you.

00:19:32: We talk to few about what do we need.

00:19:34: Then plan an organize the training review.

00:19:38: For thirty years have been learning together.

00:19:41: You can find more information at uffep.elu.

00:19:45: That's what you need to know.