CBRE Asia Pacific is running a donation campaign with our staff from 27 June to 27 July, to give back to our community.

This year, we are working with IDEAS Autism Centre, and fundraising to help sustain the life-changing work that they do; to give the children living with autism a quality education, care, and therapy they need.

About IDEAS Autism Centre

IDEAS Autism Centre (IAC) is an early intervention initiative that offers a full-day service of quality care, therapy and education for autistic children between three and nine years old who come from underprivileged families (bottom 40%). IAC's ultimate aim is to support the students to get into the mainstream primary schools by the age of nine.

Parents from low-income backgrounds with autistic children have almost no access to specialised care and therapy sessions due to high costs. Most parents are unable to provide early intervention care which is crucial in helping their child to adapt to life’s daily challenges. On top of that, the inability to pay for external care, usually means that at least one parent has to stop working to care for their autistic child, increasing the financial pressures on these families. 

IAC  believes good quality care should be accessible to everyone and it has been able to provide autistic children from low-income families with quality care, education and therapy services at the centre, allowing parents to remain in or return to employment.