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About Us
OPEN DOOR Fund
The ENABLE Fund was launched in July 2006. 
It has since been revised to allow more employers to tap the fund to employ
people with disabilities. With the revisions, the ENABLE fund has been renamed
The OPEN DOOR Fund.
The OPEN DOOR Fund
was the theme of the 2006 Disability Awareness Public Education programme,
organized by National Council of Social Service. The term "Open Door"
encapsulates the role of employers in opening doors for person with
disabilities to secure employment. It also signifies the effort needed on the
part of people with disabilities to acquire the necessary skill sets for work
to walk through the open door.
Launched in May 2007, the
OPEN DOOR Fund provides a comprehensive
package of incentives to support companies' initiatives to implement job
redesign, workplace modification, training and integration programmes for
people with disabilities. The fund provides financial subsidies of up to
$100,000 per project for companies who employ a minimum of 4 persons with
disabilities.
The OPEN DOOR Fund
is set up by the Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports (MCYS);
supported by the Singapore Workforce Development Agency (WDA); and administered
by the Singapore National Employers Federation (SNEF).
For more information on the OPEN DOOR Fund,
kindly contact the ODF team at email:
contactus@jobs-odf.com.sg or Fax at 6737 7587.
Enabling Employers Network
The greatest barrier to employing Persons With
Disabilities (PWDs) is often employers' concerns about their capabilities and
productivity at work. To address this, an alliance of employers who have
employees who are PWDs or employers who are supportive of employment of PWDs
has formed an Employers Network to champion the Employment of PWDs. This net
work was set up in April 2007.
Heading this new initiative as the Chairman of the Network
is Mr David Wong, Managing Director and Chief Executive, S.E.A. ABN AMRO Bank
N.V. Other members of the network include Mr Lim Cheng-Teck (Chief Executive of
Standard Chartered Bank), Mr Shantha De Silva (GM of Holiday Inn Parkview), Ms
Mary Yeo (Managing Director of United Parcel Service Singapore Pte Ltd), Mr Yun
Chee Keen (Chief Financial Officer of Natural Cool Holdings), Ms Jean Lee
(Managing Director of Carona Fast Food Pte Ltd), Mr Sim Kay Soon (Director
(Operations) of KFC/Multibrand), Ms Amy Yuen (Chief Executive Officer of
Healing Spa Pte Ltd), Ms Sim Sin Sin (Chief Executive Officer of Secret Recipe
Café Pte Ltd), Ms Chan Yit Foon (Executive Vice President Human Resource of
MediaCorp Pte Ltd), Ms Audrey Lee (Director of Business Management &
Resources), Mr Charlie Seo (Deputy General Manager of Seo Eng Joo Frozen Food
Pte Ltd) and Mr Tommy Ng (Senior Vice President for Corporate Services of SMRT
Corporation Ltd). The Singapore National Employers Federation is the
secretariat for the network.
The role in the Employers Network is to encourage their
industry counterparts to employ PWDs by sharing their experiences with them.
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