Gift - A Gift E-shop, creating jobs for persons with special needs

Gift.org.sg

Gift.org.sg is a one-stop shop front that showcases a full range of gifts and cards made by persons with special needs in singpore. It is a multi agency shop front, with each agency marketing their gifts made by its beneficiaries.

Persons with special needs desire to earn their own keep and not depend on handouts. Non-profit agencies or voluntary welfare organisation find means and ways to improve their employability. One such means is to teach them a livelihood via the making of gifts in sheltered workshops and homes.

The E-shop is created and managed by Centralised Marketing Service (CMS); a program of Bizlink Centre Singapore Ltd. Bizlink is a nonprofit agency that promotes the employment of people with special needs in Singapore. CMS would like to thank the Ministry of Community Development and Sports for supporting this project.

These Abled People - Cards Projects

was started since 1999 with a primary focus to create income for artists with disabilities. Today, this same platform has generated a whole chain of jobs for peole with disabilities such as designers, administrators, telemarketeers, coordinators and packers.

	Under an initiative by Bizlink Centre called “These Abled People”, people with disabilities are invited to design Season’s Greetings Cards to be sold to the public. Many have benefitted from our cards projects over the years. Those involves in the projects regardless of their roles benefitted from it. To date our ranges of services includes All occasion cards Thank you cards Birthdays Christmas cards Chinese New Year cards Hong Bao Calender Hampers Electronic Cards Hand Crafted gifts - Photo Frame, etc Hand painted gifts - tealights holders and sweet jars Corporate gifts - Enhanced Plush Hand made Cards
About THESE ABLE PEOPLE “THESE ABLED PEOPLE” is Bizlink’s brand of cards and gifts designed, crafted and packed by talented people with disabilities (PWD) working in Bizlink. The words “THESE ABLED PEOPLE” portrays PWDs positively as disabled buy “abled” to stand tall and earn their keeps. For the card project, selected PWDs are employed in various roles, for example, artists, designers, telemarketeers, co-ordinators, administrators and packers. Beautifully painted and designed season’s greeting cards that are finally produced are then sold to corporates and individuals. Other festive products that are extendedd from this cards projects include custom-made Hong Baos, ecards and festive gifts baskets.
	About Bizlink Centre Singapore Ltd Bizlink Centre is a non-profit organization registered with the Commissioner of Charities. Bizlink is supported by Community Chest and is a member of national Council of Social Service (NCSS). Its misssion is to assist the disadvantaged especially people with disabilities in Singapore ato achieve independence, dignity and integration into the mainstream society through open and sheltered employment. It run 3 funded programmes: Vocational Assessment, Open Employment Placement and a Sheltered Workshop. Bizlink’s Social Enterprise does the business development to bring in commercial projects for the sheltered workshop. Services rendered by sheltered workshop beneficiaries include: 1. Sub-contract packing (eg. lettershopping, packing of goodie bags pr products) 2. Data Management eg (for. data entry, scanning & indexing of documents) 3. Manpower Outsourcing and Businesss Process Outsourcing 4. Cleaning Services 5. Supply of corporate gifts.