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It’s not charity, please: New mindsets and models needed for inclusive employment

Mr Khong Yoon Kay (centre) and Mrs Jeanne Seah-Khong (right) set up a cafe so that their daughter Joan (left), who has intellectual disabilities, could be socially engaged. ST PHOTO: KUA CHEE SIONG
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SINGAPORE - Ten thousand. That’s how many more people with disabilities (PWDs) have to be employed, to reach the Government’s aspirational target employment rate of 40 per cent for them by 2030, up from 31 per cent today.

Organisations such as SG Enable, an agency dedicated to enabling people with disabilities, are taking steady steps to get there.

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