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Home Modification
Specially-designed furniture for poor living environment
ABOUT
Year Established: 2013
Beneficiaries: Underprivileged communities
| http://www.domat.hk | |
| 多磨建社 | |
| Improving living conditions of low income families |
SOCIAL ISSUES
- Many low-income families are living in subdivided units often with poor living conditions
- Architectural services can rarely reach the underprivileged communities in need of improving living conditions
SOCIAL INNOVATION
- Building on the success in 2016 start-up programme, to provide architectural design services to the underprivileged families to improve living conditions
- To encourage professional architects to embrace social responsibilities and to help the low-income families using their knowledge and skills
EXPECTED SOCIAL IMPACT
 | 192 low-income families living in subdivided flats to be improved in living conditions |
 | Redesign the learning environment so as to improve the learning performance of the children |
 | Encourage architectural professional to participate providing home modification services |
 | Public awareness about the poor living conditions suffered by the underprivileged groups to be raised |
BUSINESS MODEL
DOMAT designs modular and reusable furniture to underprivileged which helping them to improve living conditions, while gaining revenue through other projects to sustain its business
PROGRAMME CONTENT
Develop specially designed modular furniture
Develop modular and reusable furniture and utilise the living space of the subdivided units to provide better learning environment for children at home
Hold workshops
Provide organising and tidying tips as well as basic home maintenance knowledge