A supermarket with sliding doors and wider walkways, shopping trolleys that could be pushed by wheelchairs, braille lettering on the washroom doors and tactile indicators on the floor are some of the features of a unique village here in Singapore that is using innovation to support persons with disabilities.Called Enabling Village or EV, the first-of-its-kind community space is an all-accessible, inclusive, sensory-friendly space dedicated to integrating persons with disabilities into society.The tenants include social businesses that train and hire persons with disabilities, and these businesses also showcase the abilities of persons with disabilities when visitors shop or dine at EV.
"(Some patients) do have this vision of what HIV and AIDS was like in the 80s and early 90s. What I tend to tell these people is to reassure them that the diagnosis of HIV is really no longer a death sentence."