Packaged to perfection

"So our soap packaging project was chosen because the soap is environmentally friendly, and is so safe that even if someone ingests some of the soap accidentally, no harm is caused."

The project was started in the sunshine home in the Yinhang area and has expanded to six sunshine homes in Yangpu district, in the areas of Daqiao, Dinghai, Pingliang, Siping, Wujiaochang and Yanji, with a total of nearly 500 workers.

After preliminary training which lasts a month on average, these workers are responsible for different parts of the packaging.

"Students are paid 4 yuan (0.63 cents) for each bar of soap they package, half of that paid by the company and the rest by the government," Wang says. "On average they're paid more than 1,000 yuan a month."

Wang Weiliang, a member of staff in the Yanji home, says that originally employees there could manage only one or two boxes a day, but thanks to experience gained over 10 years, they can now handle 50 to 60 boxes a day.