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WHAT IS PROJECT DIGNITY?
Established in 2010, Project Dignity is an all-in-one platform to engage in social good through local food. Our mission is to restore dignity to the disabled and disadvantaged through skills training and job placement (Dignity Learn), employment (Dignity Kitchen and Dignity Mama) and integration (Dignity Outreach). Part of our award-winning social enterprise, Dignity Kitchen is the world’s first and only ISO22000-certified food court run by differently-abled stall managers. Our focus is on Singapore hawker culture (recently listed as a UNESCO intangible cultural heritage). Dignity Kitchen opened in Hong Kong in December 2019, bringing our street food to an international arena.
WHAT DOES PROJECT DIGNITY OFFER?
Since starting with three humble stalls in Balestier Road, we have organised over 2,000 lunch treats and delivered to a wide range of organisations - from SMEs to Fortune500 companies. During the recent COVID-19 Circuit Breaker period we received contributions from generous corporates and individuals to provide 800-1000 Bento meals daily to frontline healthcare workers at five hospitals and subsequently to more than 25 elderly nursing homes throughout Singapore. We are now located at our own building at 69 Boon Keng Road, with nine stalls, a training and production kitchen, classrooms and an events space.
HOW DO YOU WORK WITH PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES?
Currently 60% of our staff at Dignity Kitchen are Persons with Disabilities. We teach our trainees the basics of food safety and hygiene, preparing ingredients, interacting with guests, and processing payments. Our trainees undergo a structured vocational F&B training programme, some of whom are on the Autism Disorder 24 anza
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