A new initiative by SG Enable paired Singtel finance director Tan Teong Guan, 46, as the Temasek Polytechnic graduate’s mentor, to help Jaslyn Tan, 23, develop workplace skills.
SG Enable is a government agency set up in 2013 to support people with disabilities through initiatives like the Rise Mentorship Programme that Ms Tan, who has been deaf since birth, was on.
Over 12 weeks, Rise paired 15 students at local tertiary institutions with 15 mentors in senior positions at four firms – Accenture, Barclays, Deutsche Bank and Singtel .
Designed to impart soft skills to help those with disabilities integrate into the workplace, the programme was inspired by a similar set-up, PACE, run by the Australian Network on Disability.
The initiative was first launched on Feb 16 at the Enabling Village in Lengkok Bahru by Senior Parliamentary Secretary for the Ministry of Social and Family Development Faishal Ibrahim.
The Enabling Village was developed by SG Enable and the Ministry of Social and Family Development, and features accessible design and facilities that support the disabled and promote inclusiveness.
SG Enable hopes to expand the Rise programme in the future, taking the positive results of the pilot as encouragement.
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Source: The Straits Times, 7 June 2017