Stand firm on the fractured legs
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After 13 years of walking on his fractured legs throughout Saigon to earn a living by selling lottery tickets, Pham Nhu Y is now confident that he is not a person who only finished primary school, but this is a man who is not discouraged by difficulties, determined to study to find a job and owns great kindness.
“I am studying graphic design at the IT center of University of Science. I have a great passion and plan to follow this career. Indeed graphic design is beyond my knowledge; therefore I have to put in a greater deal of effort to study more than other students. When performing command operations, I do not know English so I try remembering the typeface, I ask the teacher or friends if I see a new word. I have to struggle desperately, but I am getting used to it. In my mind, low educational level does not mean an inability to study IT. The key is your passion which will enable your ability!” This is what Nhu Y shared on his desire to study.
Y is no longer a timid man who used to shiver whenever talking in front of the crowd and who had an inferiority complex due to his low educational level and disability.
Born in 1987 in Phu Yen, he had to quit school when he was in 5th grade because of his father’s early death and his family’s difficulties. Y had to endure that hard life until he was 13 years old; he decided to ask his mother to let him follow their neighbors to go to Sai Gon to sell lottery tickets for a living. There were many times when he got his lottery ticket stolen, he was sad, lonely, lost without anybody beside him…gradually Y has had regular clients who love him because of his sincerity and civility: not taking advantage of his disability to invite customers with insistence to buy tickets, which would have annoyed them. However Y himself and his life were still enclosed in a circle: selling lottery tickets and going back his rented room; dependency and loneliness…
Y shared: “I ventured to go to DRD when I came across information in a newspaper and I became obsessed with the huge question, “what is my ability?” Previously, I was always afraid that people did not understand what I was saying. I was even shy to make friends with another person with disabilities because I thought that I did not deserve to be their friend.” Now Y just sees everyone as the same; he dares to talk in front of the crowd and TV camera. Y said that is an enormous change in him. Not only that, he found his values through what he does every day: giving up selling lottery tickets to become a rider for people with disabilities, which makes him realize that he can help other people. Although his study still confronts him with difficulties, as long as he has passion for it, he can make it!
Stand firm on the fractured legs
After 13 years of walking on his fractured legs throughout Saigon to earn a living by selling lottery tickets, Pham Nhu Y is now confident that he is not a person who only finished primary school, but this is a man who is not discouraged by difficulties, determined to study to find a job and owns great kindness.
“I am studying graphic design at the IT center of University of Science. I have a great passion and plan to follow this career. Indeed graphic design is beyond my knowledge; therefore I have to put in a greater deal of effort to study more than other students. When performing command operations, I do not know English so I try remembering the typeface, I ask the teacher or friends if I see a new word. I have to struggle desperately, but I am getting used to it. In my mind, low educational level does not mean an inability to study IT. The key is your passion which will enable your ability!” This is what Nhu Y shared on his desire to study.
Y is no longer a timid man who used to shiver whenever talking in front of the crowd and who had an inferiority complex due to his low educational level and disability.
Born in 1987 in Phu Yen, he had to quit school when he was in 5th grade because of his father’s early death and his family’s difficulties. Y had to endure that hard life until he was 13 years old; he decided to ask his mother to let him follow their neighbors to go to Sai Gon to sell lottery tickets for a living. There were many times when he got his lottery ticket stolen, he was sad, lonely, lost without anybody beside him…gradually Y has had regular clients who love him because of his sincerity and civility: not taking advantage of his disability to invite customers with insistence to buy tickets, which would have annoyed them. However Y himself and his life were still enclosed in a circle: selling lottery tickets and going back his rented room; dependency and loneliness…
Y shared: “I ventured to go to DRD when I came across information in a newspaper and I became obsessed with the huge question, “what is my ability?” Previously, I was always afraid that people did not understand what I was saying. I was even shy to make friends with another person with disabilities because I thought that I did not deserve to be their friend.” Now Y just sees everyone as the same; he dares to talk in front of the crowd and TV camera. Y said that is an enormous change in him. Not only that, he found his values through what he does every day: giving up selling lottery tickets to become a rider for people with disabilities, which makes him realize that he can help other people. Although his study still confronts him with difficulties, as long as he has passion for it, he can make it!