Three winning teams will each receive implementation funding of $10,000 from the CapitaLand Hope Foundation. Read more at straitstimes.com.
SINGAPORE - Having worked in the Movement for the Intellectually Disabled of Singapore for seven years, Ms Ariel Gwee witnessed first hand the struggles that people with intellectual disabilities had withHoping to address this issue, the 31-year-old, who is an Assistant Manager at MINDS, signed up for the Design4Impact challenge.
Working in a team of five, Ms Gwee and her colleagues from MINDS proposed the idea of a ‘reverse job fair’ to empower jobseekers with intellectual disabilities. “We believe that everyone deserves access to meaningful employment and financial independence,” she told The Straits Times. Since D4I started in 2020, the implementation of six community pilots will potentially benefit hundreds of individuals, when scaled. PHOTO: LIANHE ZAOBAO
The challenge was organised by the Ministry of Health’s Office for Healthcare Transformation, National Council of Social Service, School of X by DesignSingapore Council and the Institute of Systems Science at the National University of Singapore.
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