SPD Education Programme Awards Presentation Ceremony 2010
Media release on 27 Jan 2010: New award aims to groom talents among physically disabled youths
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Press Releases
Tiger Balm Charity Event – Haw Par Healthcare Celebrates With People Born In Year Of The Tiger Proceeds Will Go Towards Society for the Physically Disabled
On the 7th day of the Chinese New Year, also known as Ren Ri (人日) – or everyone’s birthday, Haw Par Healthcare, which owns world famous Tiger Balm will be holding a special celebration – Tiger Balm Record Roar 2010. It will be a celebration with heart whereby funds will be raised towards the Society for the Physically Disabled (SPD). The carnival style celebration will be held at Underwater World Singapore (UWS) on Saturday 20 February 2010 from 9 am to 5 pm. Everyone is invited.
e-Filing for taxi drivers 11 March 2010
People with disabilities provide free income tax e-filing service to thank taxi drivers
The Infocomm Accessibility Centre organised The Tweet Meet to increase awareness of the Centre’s IT courses for people with disabilities
Centre rallied Singapore community to bridge the digital divide
Students design campaign to integrate people with disabilities into mainstream society
The students from Team Accept adopted the Society for the Physically Disabled (SPD) as their beneficiary under the YMCA-Citibank Youth for Causes Project and developed ‘I Accept’, a fundraising-public education campaign to create awareness of the challenges people with disabilities face and encourage the general public to accept disabled people as equal members at the workplace, in school and in the community.
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Microsoft Renews Commitment With SPD
IAC and Microsoft Singapore announce closer collaboration to help more people with disabilities realise their IT potential. Microsoft Singapore commits another $1 million to training at IAC.
Public Urged to Show More Support for People with Disabilities on International Day of Persons with Disabilities
With the International Day of Persons with Disabilities taking place on 3 December, the Society for the Physically Disabled (SPD) will be putting up a series of four ads in SMRT’s stations and trains to urge members of the public to give way, and to show support and consideration to people with disabilities. The posters feature people with disabilities of different ages receiving support at a lift, train platform, and in the community.
Disabled Athletes to Receive Award to Develop Further in Sports
Athletes Yip Pin Xiu and Choo Leng Hin to receive S$5,000 each to develop in swimming and running respectively and SPD to present awards and other aid amounting to S$91,200 to help 129 students with disabilities and students with disabled parents.
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Caldecott’s Most Prominent Couple to Join Celebrities to Raise Funds and Increase Acceptance of People with Disabilities
For the first time, MediaCorp artistes Fann Wong and Christopher Lee will be sharing a stage to perform a sand dance. This sort of performance has never before been seen on national TV. Theirs is one of a string of performances put up by local and international artistes at The SPD Charity Show 2011. The show is Society for the Physically Disabled’s (SPD) third and will be graced by Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong and broadcast ‘live’ over MediaCorp Channel 8 at 7pm on 13 March 2011, and repeated at 3.30pm on 20 March 2011.
The Infocomm Accessibility Centre Launches Tweet Meet 2011 to Help More People with Disabilities Join the Social Networking World
The Infocomm Accessibility Centre (IAC) announced today the launch of this year’s Tweet Meet, a civic movement aimed at encouraging members of the public to help narrow the digital divide for people with disabilities (PWDs). For the sophomore edition, this civic movement will see more than 10 volunteers who will visit the homes of 40 PWDs to personally deliver, set-up and connect them onto social networking sites such as Twitter, Facebook, Windows Live and Skype so that the recipients can plug into social media and widen their social circle.