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Our earliest engagement with Barclays was through their Women’s Network, which raised funds for DOT activities amongst their staff members. The amount of money raised was matched by Barclays and since then, the company has organised several fundraising events in support of DOT. In addition, Barclays provided a grant to enable our mission to facilitate livelihood opportunities for underprivileged women.

Through their employee engagement network, Barclays has conducted two IT Literacy workshops for DOT women. Their IT team helps configure donated laptops to ensure they are in good working condition and can be loaned to our women for virtual mentorship homework assignments and other employment purposes.

Many women in the low-income community face issues holding down long term jobs in the retail, hospitality, F&B and service sectors due to childcare contingencies. In these sectors, shift work on weekends is typical due to a shortage of manpower. In 2018, DOT launched a Community Childminding Network to allow women to access affordable childcare as well as provide childminding services for their peers.
CaregiverAsia was instrumental in enabling this network by providing training and professional insurance to women who were interested in becoming childminders. They also supported them in creating caregiver profiles on the CaregiverAsia website to build their credibility, increase their visibility and leverage childminding opportunities.
CaregiverAsia has also generously enabled DOT’s operations with venue support at their centrally located office to host various workshops that help women from low-income communities get back into the workforce.

Since 2017, Chanel Singapore has been the anchor training partner for personal grooming workshops that form part of DOT’s Confidence Curriculum. Chanel ensured that their cosmetics would be suitable for the varied skin tones of women that attended these classes by making arrangements to include a wider range of foundation shades.

DOT’s inaugural women’s conference which focused on “Women-in-Action” and Community Childminding was only made possible by Chanel employees who helped care for the children of DOT women during sessions by treating them to a fun-filled afternoon at an indoor gym. Every year since then, the Chanel team has helped organised and planned activities for the children of DOT women whenever we host a large scale women’s event.

Chanel Singapore was instrumental in introducing DOT to Chanel Foundation in Paris, which has recently awarded DOT with a two-year grant to help fund our operations from 2020 to 2021.

Deloitte has a proprietary personality assessment tool, Business Chemistry, which draws on analytical technology to reveal four scientifically based patterns of behaviour.

Since 2015, Deloitte has been conducting Business Chemistry workshops bi-annually for our volunteers, stakeholders, valued employer partners, as well as DOT’s internal team. Through a deep dive analysis of an individual’s personality and preferred working style based on observable traits, Business Chemistry helps to foster better working relationships amongst the DOT team as well as effective collaboration with our community partners and volunteers. 

We were first invited to be part of Expedia’s Day of caring in September 2017, where 60 Expedians were sensitised to the circumstances of families living in poverty here in Singapore through the Living On the Edge workshop, and a further 150 Expedians helped source, pack and delivered care-packs to a number of Families Services Centres across Singapore. The care packs were then given out to families who were looking to get back into the workforce or seek out better livelihood opportunities.

Following that initial engagement, Expedia curated a children’s programme “Expedia’s Early Explorers” (E3) which runs alongside DOT’s Confidence Curriculum (DCC) for the children of DOT’s women beneficiaries, providing much needed childminding support whilst the mothers are taking their first steps in their back-to-work journey.

In-line with Expedia’s core business, E3 is a children-centric, travel-related programme that engages the children’s 5 senses and broadens their horizons. E3 spans the same 9 weeks as our DCC and each week volunteers would share sights, sounds, taste and culture of that particular country with the children in a fun and interactive way.

In 2018, a group of Expedia employees, together with our women leaders from community childminding network, went door-to-door in the rental estate in Bukit Ho Swee Estate to help bring awareness of the network to the residents. A different group helped to spruce up and child-proof the homes of one of the community childminding network leaders.

Expedia has opened up their office to DOT as a venue to conduct workshops and other training sessions and even hosted DOT’s 2019 Employer Awards. Over the years, Expedia has raised funds for DOT programmes through activities such as employee brown bag lunches, organizing auctions and hosting a travel related trivia night with their partners.

In 2017, we were able to pilot a Financial Literacy programme with Maybank’s funding support. With the success of the pilot, we enlisted the partnership of Aidha to enhance the programme curriculum with us. Currently, the Aidha-DOT Financial Literacy Programme reaches out 2-3 times a year to cohorts of women supporting them with financial management knowledge and incentives to build a savings habit. Maybank continues to support us with funding to administer this programme 3 years on, and we are grateful for their partnership and support to enable financial education for the women.

In 2016, we received funding from the US Embassy and worked together with Rockwell Automation to create a basic IT Literacy programme with the aim of helping women from the low income community build confidence and become more efficient when using computers and Microsoft Office applications such as Word and Excel.

Over the years, Rockwell Automation has continued fine-tuning the curriculum content to ensure its relevance to the customised needs of the DOT community. For example, women learnt to navigate to different addresses for job interviews by using Google Maps. Each year, Rockwell Automation commits to delivering up to three runs of the IT Literacy programme to ensure our ladies are well prepared to step back into the modern workplace with relevant IT skills.

Sephora Singapore began their engagement with DOT with the International Women Day in 2018. As part of its 10th birthday celebrations, Sephora Singapore partnered with DOT to produce a limited-edition lipstick with sustainable packaging, the Sephora Collection Lipstories #22. All proceeds from the sale of this lipstick were donated to DOT, with a total of S$40K being raised.

As one of our trusted employer partners, Sephora adopted core and stable scheduling which catered to the childcare considerations of DOT women and went on to hire four women with flexible work arrangements across three retail outlets in 2019. They also support us with various outreach and marketing efforts, including make-up support for our 5th anniversary music video. 

As one of our earliest corporate partners, Uplifting Service has provided DOT with the free use of their proprietary training content and facilitated the “Service Mindset” workshop, which is a core component of DOT’s Confidence Curriculum, since 2015. Uplifting Service has been a strong and committed supporter of our cause over the years – from initially facilitating three workshops per year, they are now involved with the current 12 workshops that take place each year.