This year’s National Day Singapore Together packs for the National Day Parade (NDP) celebrations will include one designed by a pair of seven-year-old twin brothers.
Their design titled “Eat, Play, Repeat” features imagery of things Qays Naushad Hambril and Rizq Nawfal Hambril love doing together, like eating chicken rice and playing with building blocks.
Rizq is a cerebral palsy patient with minimal verbal ability. He attends Cerebral Palsy Alliance Singapore School.
The boys were invited by staff from Superhero Me, a non-profit inclusive arts group that works with social service agencies.
The twins have been attending the group’s workshops since 2017. Their parents wanted them to socialise with children of different abilities.
Qays, a pupil of Fuhua Primary School, is overjoyed that their piece was picked. “I feel excited and happy at the same time,” he said.
Twenty designs by artists with disabilities from seven different social service agencies were used for NDP collaterals such as the Singapore Together Pack design and the Our Heart for Singapore card.
This is part of the partnership between the NDP2020 Exco and SG Enable, a government-established agency which provides services for the disabled.
Ten of the 20 pack designs were made by Primary 5 pupils.
For the brothers, their design allows them to express themselves as “same same but different”, as twins with different personalities but united by common interests.
Mr Adam Ho, spokesman for SG Enable, said the collaboration brings attention to the i’mable initiative, which highlights and celebrates the abilities of persons with special needs.
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Source: The Straits Times, 24 June 2020