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Background
Community Business believes that companies can do more to
promote disability equality within their organisations. As such
it is running a disability campaign to help the corporate sector
understand how disability affects every aspect of business.
Indeed disability affects not just the talent pool, but
customers, markets, communities and suppliers too. The call to
action for companies is to create a culture of inclusion, remove
barriers and make adjustments that enable individuals with
disabilities to participate – both as employees and customers.
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The Campaign
As part of this
focus on disability, Community Business is doing a number of
things:
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‘Dining
With a Difference’ Event featuring disability consultant, Simon Minty
This event was held in partnership with Crown Worldwide Group. C
Level executives were treated to a unique dining experience
whilst exploring the subject of disability. The objective was to
raise the profile of disability as a business issue and motivate
senior business leaders to take steps to address.
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Facilitated
Dialogue
In October, Community Business with support from Civic Exchange
facilitated a stakeholder engagement session bringing together representatives
of the corporate sector with those directly affected by
disability. The aim was to explore what is getting in the way of
employing people with disabilities in Hong Kong and identify
what role the corporate sector can play.
- Disability Resource Guide and Online Toolkit
With lead sponsorship from American Express, Community Business has compiled a Disability Resource Guide for Employers in Hong Kong and Singapore. This will looks at the business case for promoting disability equality, examines the local context in Hong Kong and Singapore as well as provides employers with some recommendations on what steps they can take to become more ‘disability confident’. This publication is now available and supported by a practical online toolkit.
- Joint Project
Based on the discussion and ideas generated at the Facilitated Dialogue, Community Business has developed a proposal for a joint project that will enable companies in Hong Kong to come together to improve the employability of students with disabilities. Please contact Community Business if you are interested to find out more about this and explore sponsorship opportunities.
- International Day of Persons with Disabilities
Recognising the power of having some kind of public, collective approach as a way to drive corporate action, Community Business is encouraging companies operating across Asia to celebrate International Day of Persons with Disabilities (3 December 2011) by holding some kind of initiative to demonstrate their support of removing barriers to inclusion for people with disabilities. Visit the website for more details.
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Key Contacts
For more
information about the Disability Campaign please contact Kate Vernon at kate@communitybusiness.org.
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