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Children Are Us Foundation

OUR SPECIALITY: Freshly baked goods, such as cakes and bread, and western cuisine served by the intellectually challenged, who are professionally trained by vocational teachers and practicing chefs.

Piranti Works

The MAGNO Wooden Radio is produced under Piranti Works, which was founded by Kartono in 2005. The ingenious design of the company’s products has won several design competitions such as the Japan Good Design Award G-Mark 2008 in the category of Pioneering & Experimental Design as well as the Design ...

Dialogue in the Dark (DiD)

Led by blind guides in small groups of four to five participants, Dialogue in the Dark (DiD)

Artistique Sync (MINDS)

Artistique Sync. artisans - intellectually challenged beneficiaries from MINDS - are given training in areas of arts and crafts and are also provided with employment opportunities. Glass painting, dotting, mosaic work and Saori weaves are handmade and no two pieces are the same.

Eighteen Chefs

The number eighteen is a slang for an active local gang and also the number of chefs Benny hopes to have in his restaurants one day. Eighteen Chefs has since set up a second branch - 54-seat restaurant at Eastpoint Mall equally committed to training ex-offenders as chefs and keeping ...

Smooth Slider

Directory, Lifestyle, South East Asia / Posted: Sunday, November 15th, 2009

Gift and Take

Restoring dignity, rebuilding lives

Give and Take (GAT) believes in creating a source of livelihood for the disadvantaged through the sale of handicrafts. Abroad, GAT has a rigorous social audit process to ensure that beneficiaries are fairly treated. Locally, GAT has job attachment programmes created specially for youths with special needs.

Directory, Lifestyle / Posted: Friday, December 12th, 2008

Mother and Child

Strengthening the maternal bond through a professional crafts business

OUR SPECIALTY
Asian and western crafts that can be customized for both personalisation and/or corporate branding.
THE INNOVATION
Empowering disadvantaged mothers and their children to become economically self-sufficient through employment to make handicrafts. Mother and Child provides the required training delivered by qualified professionals as well as the equipment to sew. There is also subsidized student [...]