In a working world of constantly and rapidly changing features, methods and values, the disabled are finding it increasingly difficult to cope and remain competitive on the labour market. For example, the blind and partially sighted struggle to make a living in the traditional trades, such as brushmaker, basket maker or telephonist. Among other developments of its kind, the workshop in Soest, North-Rhine Westphalia, aims at opening up new trades to this population group and promoting their complete and competitive integration into the living and working society of the healthy.