Category: Products & Gifts WAD
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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…
STUFF WITH A DIFFERENCE 