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Something to keep in mind!
We’re so glad that you’re taking note of the amazing companies featured here. 🙂 We’re not linked to them in any way, so if you have questions, please contact each company directly. 🙂 Happy Browsing!
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Ashraf’s Cafe – small cafe with a big heart
Ashraf’s Cafe aims to support individuals with special needs to achieve a long term employment, and become more independent to live a fulfilling life. It’s setup by MIJ Hub – a non-profit student care and intervention programmes for individuals with learning differences and needing special care. It’s a small cozy cafe with lots of warmth…
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Pope Jai Thai Restaurant
Pope Jai Thai is a social enterprise F&B outlet that offers dine-in, catering/bento boxes, workshops and sauce production. “Pope Jai” in Thai means ‘to satisfy from the heart’. Pope Jai Thai first began as a small food stall in a coffee shop in 2012. Now, they operate as a restaurant located at Scape in Orchard…
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Dignity Kitchen – where local food meets social good
Project Dignity is on a mission to restore dignity to the differently-abled and disadvantaged through training, employment and vocation. Dignity Kitchen operates a fully functional, regular hawker food court that is open to the public. Focusing on the training of people with physical, mental & social disabilities to learn a new skill, and to become…
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Professor Brawn Cafe
Professor Brawn Cafe is a social enterprise by Autism Resource Centre (ARC) to provide job and social integration opportunities to people with special needs. Their Mission is to provide affordable good food, served by an inclusive quality workforce, comprising people of different abilities, ages and socio-economic backgrounds. Professor Brawn Cafe has two locations: Professor Brawn…
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Naomi’s Chunky Banana Loaves
Naomi is an aspiring young baker with special needs who makes delicious banana loaves. She also gives back to the community by donating $2 per loaf sold to the Mountbatten Vocational School for Special Needs education. As at time of writing this post, she has 3 flavours of banana loaves: original; chocolate chip, and blueberry.…
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Ugly Cake Shop
Ugly Cakes make the world a prettier place! The Ugly Cake Shop a serious weekend foodie and home baker with a dream to feed the hungry kids in Timor-Leste. Armed with an oven and a mixing bowl (not little, I can assure you), she decided to used her God-given skills to help feed undernourished kids in…
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Agape – Connecting People
Agape, Connecting People is a social enterprise with a social mission to eradicate urban poverty by providing sustainable empowerment through employment. Agape is a venture-backed Contact Centre set up with the purpose of providing sustainable empowerment towards the disadvantaged through employment. Their staff include inmates serving time in prison, physically challenged persons, single mothers and ex-offenders.…
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Wow Wow West
Wow Wow West is a western food hawker stall run by daughter and father team, Elizabeth and Eric Ng. They support the Yellow Ribbon Project by hiring ex-offenders and ex-drug addicts to work at its branches. Beautiful write-up’s on their history from a couple of bloggers: 2007 Link: ieatishootipost.sg 2011 Link: danielang 2019 Post: vulcanpost…
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New Charis Moving, Painting & Maintenance Services
Picture above – when New Charis Movers came to help my mum move. Extremely professional, cheerful spirits, and very helpful. The New Charis Social Enterprise provides moving, painting and maintenance services. They have a team of 50 men, 4 trucks and 2 vans and offer services ranging from house, office and warehouse local relocation, painting and…
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Sewing Mums
Sewing Mums provides single mothers who are unable to go out to work with an opportunity to earn income from home. These ladies either need to look after their children, or some have illnesses that prevent them from engaging in full-time jobs. They produce nice comfy cushions, the most popular ones being their owl designs.…
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Flour Power
Flour Power is a bakery that empowers people with special needs by equipping them with baking and other productive occupational skills such as customer service. It was founded in April 2016 by former corporate marketer Ms Lena Ng after a six month volunteer expedition to Thailand and Cambodia inspired her to help the special needs…
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Covenant Jewellery
Covenant Jewellery (formerly known as Saught) creates beautiful pieces of jewellery made by their team of artisans and craftsmen in Cambodia – providing them with meaningful employment, fair pay, health care and a positive work environment. In the world of mass production, they seek to continually support traditional craftsmanship of jewellery and provide employment…
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APSN Mystical Cafe for All
The APSN Cafe opened in Feb 2017 at Kembangan-Chai Chee Community Hub. This social enterprise cafe is staffed by trainees from the Association for Persons with Special Needs (APSN). Profits from sales are channeled back support APSN’s programmes and pay the trainee’s an allowance. Walking into the cafe, the atmosphere is different – full of…
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The LOOMs Workshops
The LOOMs Workshops is a social enterprise that provides education and employment for disadvantaged women through the creation and sale of handcrafted homeware and fashion accessories. Personal development workshops are designed in order to allow each of the LOOMs Sewing and Crafting Mums to turn their lives around and to sustain this transformation over the…
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Personalised Love
Personalised Love (PLove) is a social enterprise that trains and employs people with special needs to produce beautiful leather-based personal and corporate gifts. They also conduct corporate workshops and school sessions around leather craft making and values-based workshops for learning about empathy, communication and team-bonding. They work in close collaboration with Grace Orchard School to…
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Project Nomad
Nomad is a social enterprise that connects rural artisans to emerging and developing markets, providing them with livelihood and educational support for the young kids in their communities. Currently, Nomad is partnering with artisans in India and Indonesia to produce quality leather bags that are marketable around the world. Through a balance of innovation, incorporation…
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Gift-It-Forward
Party with Meaning! Huh? Is that really possible? Absolutely yes! Social enterprise Gift-It-Forward is an online invitation and gifting platform that helps you plan parties with a charitable twist. Gift-It-Forward wants to help your children learn about charity and spreading generosity. It will also simplify the event planning and the overall gift-giving experience for you…
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hello flowers!
hello flowers! is a social enterprise floral studio that creates beautiful moments with flowers and nature. At hello flowers!, you will expect a lot of experimenting, mixing and just letting nature speaks for itself. Founded by Annie, a curious and idealistic individual who trained and worked as a social worker with families with violence. In…
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AMGD Healthy Meals
AMGD is a commercial enterprise with a strong social mission. The company believes in empowering employees from less advantaged backgrounds by providing them with meaningful job opportunities in the F&B industry that will help shape their future career progressions. By equipping them with relevant skills, AMGD seeks to increase their self-confidence and self-worth. The company…
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Soon Huat Bak Kut Teh
Superbly delicious bak kut teh and pig’s trotters which I highly recommend to anyone! (and this is the hallmark of a good social enterprise – that the product or service speaks for itself without needing to talk about the social cause in the first place). Soon Huat Bak Kut Teh is in the business of…
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Jaga-Me Care Services
Jaga-Me’s mission is enable everyone to have access to affordable, quality healthcare at home. (In case you are wondering, “Jaga” is the malay word for ‘guard’, but in Singlish, it means to ‘keep watch over’ something). Jaga-Me wants to help you care for your loved ones. It’s online platform connects you with qualified care professionals to…
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BloomBack Flowers
Founder of Bloomback, Hazel, says, “Any contribution from the public is a gift to a marginalised woman in our community.” BloomBack is a online floral social enterprise that seeks to empower marginalised women. Hazel’s inspiration came from her background of being raised by a low-income single parent who had to provide for her and her…
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The Art Faculty by Pathlight
The Art Faculty by Pathlight is located within the Enabling Village near Redhill MRT Station (enablingvillage.sg). There’s another branch at Pathlight school in Ang Mo Kio which we have not visited yet. There’s a wide variety of art related products for your choosing, designed by people with special needs and special talents. See pictures below.…
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Mustard Tree
Mustard Tree is both an online store and a physical retail store (located at Ng Teng Fong Hospital at Jurong East, Level 2). Founders Soek Ying and Barry set out to build a business that would empower people with special needs. To achieve their social objectives, they first want to establish a healthy brand, recognized for great products…
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The Animal Project
The Animal Project Pte Ltd is a social enterprise which aims to provide customers with quality life-style products using artwork drawn by persons with special needs. Their products range from art pieces, gift items, dinner ware to stationaries – all with an animal theme. Artists earn royalty through the sales of these products. They also…
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The Nail Social
Pssst! One for the ladies…. The Nail Social is a lovely little oasis in Haji Lane to get nails done and support a great social cause! Co-founder, Cheryl Ou, and her team of lovely ladies do foot massages, manicures and pedicures (regular and gel) in their little 2 storey walk-up, complete with a small comfy…
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BEAT’ABOX
Learn some rhythm, beat a box, and do some good all at the same time. BEAT’ABOX GROUP is a social enterprise that offers a cajon lessons, sells their own range of cajons, and has a mission of reaching out to youths and people with disability through music. Regardless of your age or background, you can sign for…
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ONE+ONE Handmade Craft
ONE+ONE is a social enterprise that designs and created handmade, handstitched and handcrafted products. 30% of the net profit is given to a needy cause, but none specifically mentioned. During the development of ONE+ONE, the founder of the brand decided to add greater resonance to her creative idea by making sure that her designs would…
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SDI Academy
SDI Academy seeks to teach English language and IT skills to migrant workers, thereby helping them to better communicate and integrate into our workforce and society. Migrant workers and foreign labour have played a critical role in Singapore’s progress: they’ve built our homes, served in our factories and taken care of our children. Unfortunately, they…
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I’m Soul Inc – Music for Healing
Music is one of my passions, and I’m excited to discover a social enterprise that uses music to bless the needy and less privileged. I’m Soul Inc has programmes that are designed to enrich mind, body and soul, and to empower everyone to make music so that they can unlock the therapeutic power of music. They seek…
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Soule Slippers
Soule Flipflops and Lifestyle Goods Soüle is a play on two words = Sole + Soul. Their mission is to provide a sole for every soul. Can shopping change the world? They think so. Every purchase you make at Soule goes towards empowering someone in need. Since 2008, their “Sole for every Soul” initiative and…
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Assumption Restaurant for Training (ART)
The Assumption Restaurant for Training (ART) is located within the premises of Assumption Pathway School (APS) at Upper Bukit Timah. The restaurant provides a hands-on working and training environment for students in Hospitality Services at Assumption Pathway School APS to put their skills and knowledge to practice and learn on-the-job. The school provides education for students who…
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Soul Food Enterprise Pte Ltd
Soul Food is a social enterprise that trains and employs youths with special needs to prepare sumptuous meals founded by Gerald Png. Each week, Gerald publishes the highlights of the week on Soul Food’s Facebook page. Some of the menu items are listed below. They do catering as well. We’ve tried many of the dishes, which were all…
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SMARTERIA
SMARTERIA: From Phnom Penh to Paris Smateria’s product creation is not only about recycling: it is also about creating useful, attractive and innovative items from the most mundane materials… Smateria is all about transformation. A used milk carton becomes a diary or maybe a handbag. Creative thinking adds value to an object, regardless of its…
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BELIEVE NJ – Muffins
First Flagship Retail Sales Counter opening on 18 March 2014! Offering a variety mix of sweet & savoury muffins piping hot from the oven, complementing with great cheese dips prepared with and by the intellectually challenged youths. Set meals @ $7.80 Cheesy Egg Muffins, Salad & Cheese Dips Butter Milk Sausage Muffins, Salad & Cheese Dips…
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Daughters of Tomorrow – Livelihood SOS
Daughters Of Tomorrow (DOT) is a social enterprise enabling livelihoods for underprivileged women in Asia. They provide design, marketing expertise and sales channels for products made by women communities who benefit through skills training and employment. DOT is founded by Singaporean Carrie Tan, who upon making a volunteer trip to India in 2007, felt a…
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好貨設 hǎo huò shè (HHS) – goods with a heart!
好貨設 hǎo huò shè (HHS) is a e-commerce business with an eco and social angle started by Singaporean Hui Shan, who left her career in tax consultancy to contribute back to the community. Hui Shan shares that “HHS is a brand conceptualised upon the appreciation of human creativity, love for nature and pursuit of wellness.…
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Ren Bakers
2016 ANNOUNCEMENT: Sad to say that Ren Bakers have closed operations permanently. Heard about this outfit from one of our good friends over a meal… Ren (仁) Bakers is a bakery and café with a difference. Ren Bakers, a partner of Ekklesia Renaissant Consulting.Com, is a social enterprise, that is, a business enterprise with a…
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Mouth and Foot Painting Artists Pte Ltd
Mouth and Foot Painting Artists Pte Ltd is a partnership of artists with disabilities who have come together to sell their beautiful mouth and foot painted works of art reproduced on cards, calendars, and other items. They seek to earn a living through their craft, and not function like a charity. They are not a…
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Eighteen Chefs
Eighteen Chefs trains ex-offenders and delinquents on F&B-related skill sets in cafe outlets serving mostly simple Western fare. They have 3 branches Eastpoint Mall, 3 Simei Street 6,, Eastpoint Mall, #01-36, Singapore 528833 (Located beside POSB) Telephone: 6782 1298 Operation Hours: Sun – Thu: 11.30am – 10pm Fri, Sat and Eve’s of Public Holiday: 11.30pm-11pm Fusionopolis Way, No. 1 Fusionopolis Way, Connexis, #B1-12/13, Singapore 138632 (Located…
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Alteration Initiative
A-changin Private Limited is a social enterprise with a social mission to provide training and employment opportunities to work-capable women in need, especially single mothers. Their first work-integration initiative, appropriately named Alteration Initiative, aims to equip disadvantaged women with garment alteration skills to achieve adequate source of income and better quality of life; integrating them…
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Breakthru Cafeteria
Breakthru Cafe offers reformed drug addicts the much needed employment opportunities where they can further their skills and be better prepared in reintegrating into the society. The cafe’s delectable menu of local delights, like dim sum, vinegar pig’s trotters, chicken curry and local desserts, in a cozy setting makes it a regular choice for many…
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Ageless Online
Be a part of an Ageless community! Ageless Online is a free website for seniors. It offers stories of inspiring seniors, opinions written by seniors, and health and finance stories by experts. It also has products and events targeted at seniors, a list of companies’ senior perks/discounts, and an “Ask-the-expert” section where readers can pose…
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Human Nature
Great range of beauty products that both safe for our bodies, for the environment, and is also helping poor communities in the Philippines! For more on their advocacy, click on HN Advocacy. Good news is that they have an online store which you can easily order from! For payment and delivery process, click here. Click on…
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Gift Of Hope
Gift Of Hope is an initiative by 4 Nanyang Polytechnic students to help raise funds for TP Healthcare, who provides physiotherapy, occupational therapy, day care, nursing care and transport services to all adults and elderly regardless of race and religion. To find out more about their mission, vision and cause, please click on: TP Healthcare TP…
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be movement – Celebrating the Courage to be
be movement – Celebrating the Courage to be For the first time ever, Noam Chomsky, “father of modern linguistics” and voted the “world’s top public intellectual”, has endorsed a publication from Singapore. This publication is a totally independent “bookazine” (part book, part magazine) called be movement, created by a new social enterprise of the same…
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Gone Adventurin’
LATEST TRIP INFO: Divin’ Timor is an adventure like never before; set in the backdrop of East Timor, one of Southeast Asia’s most unexplored destinations, it takes you underwater diving in the most stunning, majestic and pristine dive sites in the world to support The Hummingfish Foundation’s sustainable livelihoods development project for East Timor’s women entrepreneurs.…
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Aii Candy Gifts
Aii is a social enterprise that works with hearing impaired people to conceptualize lovely decorated candy packaged as gifts and favors, personalized hampers, beautiful candy tables and interesting goody and gift bags for corporate functions, parties, weddings, and product launches. The Aii team also participates in corporate lunch time bazaars to allow more people to interact with…
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The Chain Reaction Project
The Chain Reaction Project (TCRP) organises adventure challenges to raise funds and awareness for deserving charities around Southeast Asian region. Join them on their trips and be inspired by the immense change that can be wrought by a single determined individual. Be a catalyst for change. So far, TCRP has worked in Timor-Leste, Tanzania, the Philippines…
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Dialogue In The Dark – Special Events
Dialogue In The Dark (DiD) aims to increase social awareness of people with visual and other impairments, change mindsets to encourage and promote an inclusive society, and promote employment for the disabled, in partnership with community-minded companies and organisations. Through special events and workshops, DiD puts visitors in everyday situations – except in complete darkness.…
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ECO TRAVEL SERVICES
ECO TRAVEL SERVICES (ETS) was created to offer more holistic travel experiences that would nurture the intellect, promotes a deep understanding of truth, beauty and good. As an eco tour operator, they are intentional in working towards tours that actively live up to their core values: loving mother nature, opening up to new cultures, teaching…
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Gourmet Guru Academy
At Gourmet Guru Academy, you can sign up for cooking classes, cater for events and functions, or purchase their cookbooks. Gourmet Guru Academy is a collaboration between the Nanyang Technological University’s Students in Free Enterprise (NTU SIFE) and Persatuan Pemudi Islam Singapura Family Service Centre – West (PPIS FSC-West). Their Mission: Turning homemakers into the best culinary teachers…
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Chinatown Social Enterprise – Handicraft Store
Chinatown Social Enterprise(CSE) is a non Profit organization, established by Kreta Ayer-Kim Seng CCC and the support of Singapore Turf Club, to help provide career opportunities for elderly and needy to earn a living for themselves, and enable needy to learn a second skill. They sell handicraft made by their members, as well as products from…
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Watchman’s Home Services
Watchman’s Home provides services for the following, with free on-site quotation for their services: home/office MOVING; house CLEANING; home PAINTING; and waste DISPOSAL. A friend of mine recently used their home moving services and he was totally impressed. They were priced more reasonably than another moving company that he also got a quote from. On…
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Bakery Hearts
BAKERY HEARTS is a project organised by The Ang Mo Kio Family Service Centres, selling baked goods. It empowers women from low income families by providing opportunities to earn supplementary income from baking. For more information, check out their Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/BakeryHearts. To order, call 64546678/ 86965689, or email bakeryhearts.amkfsc@gmail.com. Payment will be cash upon collection…
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Pathlight Mall
The mission of Pathlight Mall is to promote and endorse a new brand of products embellished with unique doodles by students of Pathlight School, Singapore’s first Autism-focused school that offer a unique blend of mainstream curriculum and life skills. Each Doodlist and Artist receives royalties from the sale of their merchandise. Our range of merchandise…
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WEworkz Handicrafts & Services
WEworkz, a co-operative for women, has a vision to encourage and empower lower-income Singaporean women who are unable to commit to full time employment to engage in home-based economic activities, such as making of handicrafts, accessories, and in the future, services such as manicure and pedicure services, balloon sculpting, face/hand painting and gift wrapping, to supplement their…
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Operation Renewal Services
OPERATION RENEWAL (SINGAPORE) is a non-profit charitable organization that has been touching the lives of the disadvantaged in our community since 1993. It is an Institution of a Public Character (IPC) and a full member of the National Council of Social Service (NCSS). Their social services include: a rehabilitation centre for recovering substance abusers, ex-offenders and…
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SAVH Mobile Massage Team
As part of their Skills Development Programme to equip its people with vocational rehabilitation, education and skills development training, the Mobile Massage Team is one of the training that Singapore Association of the Visually Handicapped (SAVH) provides. SAVH’s Mission: To Help the Visually Handicapped Help Themselves, by acquiring new skills and gaining self reliance to cope…
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Red Shield Industries Family Thrift Stores
The Red Shield Industries (RSI) Family Thrift Stores, in partnership with The Salvation Army, is a social enterprise as well as a serving ministry. The Salvation Army receives donations-in-kind from the public and companies. In turn, RSI resells them at affordable costs through its network of Family Thrift Stores. The income generated supports Salvation Army…
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Book Binding – Society for the Physically Disabled
As part of the initiative to equip people with physical disabilities with employable skills while at the same time generating funds for the provision of beneficial programmes and services, SPD provides bookbinding and book restoration services to educational institutions, libraries, organisations, lecturers, students as well as other individuals. For more information and queries, please contact…
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The Helping Hand – Moving Services
The Helping Hand, a Christian half-way house for the rehabilitation of ex-drug addicts, seeks to transform lives’ of ex-offenders into restored and hardworking individuals, re-integrating them back into society as stable and contributing citizens, and finding a community to be part of in a local church. As part of the men’s work therapy, The Helping Hand…
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Mother and Child Project
Mother and Child Project products (clothes, bags, accessories and corporate gifts) made in Singapore by mothers (mostly single mothers with children), retirees and women recovering from psychiatric illnesses. By providing sewing contract work under the Mother and Child brand, the Project provides home-based work for disadvantaged mothers and their children so that they can become…
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Greenie Genie
Greenie Genie is an online store that specializes in accessories. Their aim is to deliver products which are intricately handmade with assured quality and essentially, unique & one-of-a-kind which accentuate with lots of character and individuality. Through each of these amazingly handcrafted pieces, they hope that the awareness for a greener, more sustainable living with social responsibility can proliferate far…
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Buy1Give1 (B1G1)
B1G1 helps individuals and businesses tie in their spending or sales (respectively) to giving back directly to specific charities in specific sums. For individuals, B1G1 helps you put together a portfolio of donation to pre-determined charities based on your consumption, eg: for every cup of coffee you buy, you give $1 to supply fresh water…
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Silver Spring
Silver Spring is a platform especially for those in their mid life career, to generate enterprise and economic activities, to tap on the wealth of expertise and resources. We aim to be a key player for professionals in career transition seeking ways to generate options, providing a myriad of career consulting services for SENIORS. For…
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Mister Clean Pte Ltd
Mister Clean specializes in surface treatments and maintenance for both residential and industrial clients. It employs ex-offenders to provide them with on-the-job training as well as gainful employment. For more information and queries, please contact the company directly at their website below. Website: mister-clean-pte-ltd
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Homespun Pte Ltd
Homespun reaches out to the cottage industries and bind them with local talents to create inspiring everyday objects. It’s a fusion of ideas between designers and craftsmen. For more information and queries, please contact the company directly at their website below. Website: http://www.homespun.info/
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GAT (Gift and Take) Pte Ltd
GAT believes that social advancement for the less fortunate can co-exist with one built on a business foundation. They produce and sell gifts made by the impoverished, disabled and disadvantaged in this world. For more information and queries, please contact the company directly at their website below. Website: http://www.giftandtake.com My Shopping Experience with GAT: Finally got round to…
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FOCOS Online Store
FOCOS is an integrated wholesale, e-commerce and retail Business Hub for the “Fair Trade & Social Responsible“ global consumer market. Sells clothes, jewellery, gifts, etc. For more information and queries, please contact the company directly at their website below. Website: http://focos.com.sg/
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FAIR & SQUARE
FAIR & SQUARE Artisan Gallery works in partnership with disadvantaged artisans in developing communities throughout the Asia-Pacific region to produce a range of fairtrade, eco-friendly corporate gift, event and promotional products. For more information and queries, please contact the company directly at their website below. Website: http://www.fairandsquare.sg/ Some of their products can be found in a shop in Chinatown…
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TOMS Shoes
TOMS Shoes, an American company that would match every pair of shoes purchased with a pair of new shoes given to a child in need. One for One. For more information and queries, please contact the company directly at their website below. Website: http://www.toms.com/ To purchase from Singapore: A reliable Hardwarezone contact coordinates orders of REAL AUTHENTIC TOMS…