KU GEOK BOON
CEO, SG ENABLE
Her mission: To impact individuals with disabilities
Prior to assuming the role of founding CEO at SG Enable in 2013, Ku Geok Boon spent nearly two decades working in the education sector.
Her belief in maximising the potential of every individual has been a driving force throughout her career. At SG Enable, she spearheads initiatives aimed at fostering inclusion and dismantling barriers for individuals with disabilities in Singapore. Her efforts encompass diverse areas such as inclusive employment, technology adoption, and community integration.
Notably, she played a pivotal role in the establishment of the Enabling Village in 2015, Singapore’s first inclusive community space that is also home to the country’s inaugural inclusive gym, the first inclusive preschool, and the first outreach clinic tailored for persons with disabilities.
Given your background in education, what motivated you to transition into the disability sector and take on a leadership role at SG Enable?
I am a builder at heart, and the opportunity to set up a new agency that focuses on rallying different stakeholders to come together to make a difference to people’s lives was too good to be passed up. Like education, the social service sector allows me to make a direct and tangible impact on the community.
Please share more about the Enabling Village’s conception, development, and its impact.
Enabling Village is the first inclusive community space in Singapore dedicated to integrating persons with disabilities in society. Beyond providing services to persons with disabilities, caregivers, and organisations, it also brings together community amenities, lifestyle retail services and inclusive programming.
The Enabling Village will also expand with a four-storey extension expected to be ready by 2025. The extension will feature I’mable Collective, an integrated experiential space with a retail showcase, cafe, gallery and studios to profile and nurture creatives with disabilities, promoting integration and inclusion. It will be Singapore’s first showcase that brings together pan-disability artists and makers’ works under one
