Sunday, November 8, 2009 . Thyeleng's DID experience T02
8:54 PM

Before the DiD tour, I always thought that walking in the dark was an easy thing. Such that I even tried walking with my eyes close. However, it was totally different when I went for the tour. Walking in the dark was definitely more difficult then walking with your eyes closed.

From the DiD tour experience, I learnt that a person's weakness can actually become his/her strength in a different environment. In the dark, when our sight have become useless, we have to rely on our other sense which we are not so familier with to lead our way. However, this was not a problem for visually impaired patients. Without them, I doubt that we could survive the first half of the journey in the dark. Thus, I feel that we should not discriminate them because of their disability. In some other situation, they can also be very valuable.

From my point of view, I feel that using DiD Singapore as a social enterprise and learning model for BZSE and PCS students is a very useful tool for us to understand how a social enterprise can operate with the effective and efficient use of their resources (the visually impaired patients). Letting the visually impaired patients learn how to be independant and being able to guide us through the dark was an important factor which i think leads to the success of this project. With this, it would make this project sustain not because of its social cause.

BZSE students can help promote DiD to their friends and family.

Done by:
koh thye leng


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