Korean Churches & Missionary Association donates $2,500 to TWC2
En route to nearby countries for their missionary work, members of the Korean Churches & Missionary Association sought out Transient Workers Count Too (TWC2) to lend us a hand. They gave us a generous donation of $2,500 which they raised among themselves. They also paid a visit to our soup kitchen at Isthana restaurant, a...
Street work in Geylang
TWC2 community worker Kenneth Soh together with five volunteers devoted a Sunday afternoon distributing information leaflets in the Geylang area, targeting workers from China. Four of the volunteers are in the header image above (left to right): Chan Weng Hong, Guo Quanzhi, Serena Tan and Chou Yahuei. Chloe and Kenneth are not in the picture....
Why is there no bed?
Would teenagers be able to understand the travails of working life? Especially those of migrant workers? At their age, they had never had any taste of work, nor would they have had much contact with migrant workers, except perhaps foreign domestic maids in their homes. These concerns weighed on Alex’s mind as December 10, 2011...
Casual but engaged at TWC2′s December 2011 outreach
In the second of a new series, Transient Workers Count Too held a public outreach event Saturday, December 17, 2011. Divided into two sessions — the earlier one relating to domestic workers and the later one relating to male migrant workers with a short break in between, it was designed to be accessible and easy...
Migrant workers show off their dance moves
Every person has multiple talents; migrant workers too. At TWC2′s celebration of International Migrants Day (IMD), some of these hidden talents came to the fore. Members of the Indonesian Family Network (IFN), Filipino Family Network (FFN) and guests from Resorts World Singapore and elsewhere came forward to show off different sides of their personalities in...
Donate your older cameras and laptops to TWC2
Stay green, at least a little longer. Don’t be so quick to throw away your older cameras and laptops when you’ve bought a newer model. Transient Workers Count Too (TWC2) has use for them. As a charity organisation, we depend entirely on donations. Rather than spend precious cash donations on buying new laptops and cameras,...
Not like a fridge or washing machine
It’s been 33 years, said Isaac Tan, since foreign domestic workers started moving into Singaporean households. A generation of young people has grown up with them. How have their presence impacted our lives? Together with his friends, Abhiroop Basu, Dawn Toh and others – “creative types”, according to TWC2 president Russell Heng – Isaac hit...
Marathoners push themselves for TWC2
The annual Standard Chartered marathon is around the corner. Scheduled for December 4, 2011, Pui Kwan Lee, Shuxia and Aseem Thakur are motivating themselves by the thought of TWC2′s worthy cause. These three runners have created donation pages on Give.sg where you can support their efforts by making a contribution. This will spur them on...
Manpower ministry’s Tan Chuan-Jin visits TWC2
Senior officials from the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) met with Transient Workers Count Too this week on a fact-finding visit, engaging in fruitful and cordial discussions that broached a range of legal and workplace issues faced by low-skilled migrant workers in Singapore. Led by Minister of State for Manpower Tan Chuan-Jin, some 10 civil servants...
Indonesian workers’ journey in photographs
“Oh yes, and the prints you see here are for sale,” Sim Chi Yin said, almost as an afterthought to the speech she had just made, launching her book The Long Road Home, “and the proceeds will benefit Transient Workers Count Too, Home and Migrant Voices in equal thirds.” She was referring to the framed...
