Learning & Development
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Developmental opportunities that we were able to attend.
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Gather several feedbacks from different stakeholders.
Events Attended
Deaf Hangout
Initiated by Wang Li-Sa, Singapore's First Professional Sign Language Interpreter
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Hangout where the deaf community gather
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What we experienced:
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Engaged with the deaf community
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What we learnt:
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Understand the hearing impaired (deaf) better
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Possible challenges that will arise when working with them
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Communicating through texts can be time consuming
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Having an interpreter might be better
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RunningHour
The inclusive running club was formed on 18th April 2009 by a group of fitness enthusiasts. Every Saturday morning, they act as running guides to special needs members who are intellectually challenged.
The members are mainly students and ex-students of Association for Persons with Special Needs (APSN). On 9th June 2012, a group of visually challenged runners joined Runninghour.
Runninghour became a Co-operative on 16th May 2014.
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What we experienced:
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Get to bond and interact with more visually impaired
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Got to film a day in their life
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What we learnt:​
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Experiencing how is it like to run with a Visually Impaired persons
GoalBall
Goalball is among the most exciting team sports on the Paralympic programme.
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Played by athletes with visual impairments, the players wear eyeshades so those with varying degrees of visual impairment.
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The game is played by two teams of six members of which three players from each team are on a court.
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The aim is to score by rolling the hard rubber ball (that has holes and bell so it can be heard when it moves) at a speed into the opposition’s goal, while the other team attempts to block the ball with their bodies.
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What we experienced:
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Experiencing how is it like to play a sport without our eyesight which allowed us to be able to empathise our beneficiaries better
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Getting exposed to Goalball which is unknown to some of our group members beforehand
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Understand Goalball as a sports
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Exposed us to a different view of sports
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Firsthand experience of how the National Goalball Team trains themselves
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What we learnt:
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People with visual impairments can play sports like any others
- Resilience in the visually impaired persons as they had to train harder than a sighted person
Scent By Six
After spending four years at world-renowned fragrance house, Givaudan, Jason developed a passion and love for scents.
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In 2015, as a gesture of love for his then bride-to-be, who has a penchant for fragrances; Jason created two unique scents as a wedding gift. These scents were presented as wedding favours to his guests.
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Encouraged by raving reviews, Jason embarked on an entrepreneurial journey, which has led to the launch of the first three scents of the six-variant collection, aptly named SIX. They are 123 Tribeca, 1724 Puka and 27F Biei.
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What we experienced:​
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Experience what is it like to make a perfume of our choice
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What we learnt:
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Learnt the process of Perfume-Making
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Different notes and recommended percentages
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Understanding the materials needed to conduct a perfume-making workshop
Feedbacks
We asked our industry partners as well as experts on their point of view of Real. Scent
The Majurity Trust
"Project targets a very niche group, perfumery is a novel idea and has much potential to scale especially with the partnership with DiD"
Feedbacks from participants
"Allowed me to experience what is it like to be visually impaired and made me realised that they are still very abled people that can accomplish many things even with their disabilities"
Travis
"Learnt more about what is it like to be a deafblind person making perfume and it was a fun session"
Isabella Low
"i felt that it was an inclusive experience and they did think about the fact that we could've arranged the base top etc in order before we started but made us mix them and re arrange them which allows us to really depend on our sense of smell"
Suk Dah
"this is an insightful experience for us to dive into scents while being visually and hearing impaired"
Clarius Wang
"I learnt about the struggles of their everyday life and they still remained positive and upbeat about life"
Sheryl Loh
"I thought after being a deafblind it would be difficult to be independent, but I was proven wrong after seeing my deafblind facilitator teach me how to make perfumes, even better than the participants!"
Jun Xian
"We should provide the deafblind persons more opportunities and empathy"
Yu Jie
"My initial perception of the deafblind community wasn't wrong, but I did learn some new things about them like how independent they are, with Hamid being able to travel solo overseas."
Jasmine
"experience something that i haven’t experienced before — making perfume + experience how it is like being blind and deaf."
Samantha
"Guides were engaging and I also learnt that they are very resilient folks"
Edward Chia
Member of the 14th Parliament representing the Zhenghua ward of Holland–Bukit Timah Group Representation Constituency
"I think it gave me a better understanding of some difficulties they face even from the small details like not being able to read off from the slides, but instead they rlly need to memorise what they are presenting are stuff that we all often take for granted"
Linus
"I’ve learnt more about some difficulties that persons with visual and hearing impairment face and how they rely more on other senses such as touch and smell."
Li Xuan