Koh Seng Choon, founder of Project Dignity, a social enterprise that trains and employs disabled individuals and provides employment for mothers of disabled children, has been nominated as a finalist for The Straits Times Singaporean of the Year 2024. For four years, he made personal sacrifices to sustain Dignity Kitchen, a foodcourt that employs people with disabilities, without paying himself a salary and by remortgaging his office.
Koh Seng Choon is the founder of Project Dignity , a social enterprise that trains and employs disabled people as hawkers and creates jobs for mothers of disabled children. He is a finalist for The Straits Times Singaporean of the Year 2024 award.
To make up for the losses and to support his two teenage sons, he juggled five jobs, including teaching, consultancy work and auditing. He started with taking lonely seniors living near his flat in Spottiswoode Park on outings, and went on to volunteer with Yellow Ribbon, which helps prisoners rehabilitate and reintegrate with society, before coming up with the idea for Dignity Kitchen in 2006.
Today, the Singapore enterprise is financially sustainable, but the Hong Kong foodcourt is making big losses, with the revenue from the Singapore side supporting it.The former engineering and business student sees himself as a social engineer.“Every problem has a solution,” he said, recounting how he had helped someone with cerebral palsy years ago.
She was advised by her doctor to take up a less stressful job, and psychiatric service provider Anglican Care Centre introduced her to Dignity Kitchen.
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