Teenagers spend a rainy Saturday afternoon grasping the issues
By Paul M As a society we can often measure our progress by the attitudes, ambitions and actions of our youth. So one of the more hopeful signs is the increasing interest of youth and educationists in the treatment of migrant workers. Transient Workers Count Too (TWC2) has a programmme called ‘Day School’ in which...
Interactive Akash
Be Bangladeshi worker Akash for a little while — that’s the concept behind the interactive video produced by Nanyang Technological University students Avril and Yanling (lower right inset above) for their final year project. It’s a documentary with a twist, taking the viewer through the experiences of a fictional character as he leaves his home...
Berita Harian spotlights Mohd Khamsya
Mohd Khamsya, one of Transient Workers Count Too’s volunteers at our Cuff Road Project, was featured in Berita Harian on Monday, April 2, 2012. The Malay-language newspaper however, omitted mention of Sya’s involvement with TWC2, though he had told the reporter about it. Below is an English translation of the news feature, translated for TWC2...
SMU students create video sensation from Little India interviews
A striking new video of candid conversations between Singapore Management University students and Bangladeshi construction workers has become a YouTube sensation in Singapore. Between its release on March 7, 2012 and the end of the month, more than 37,000 people have viewed the seven-minute student film, “Unsung – The Invisible Workforce behind this City.” Benjamin...
Soap kitchen day
A group from Paya Lebar Methodist Church came by to our soup kitchen at lunch on Saturday, March 24, 2012, to give out goodie bags stuffed full of useful things to the workers we serve. Things like soap, toothpaste and shavers may look like unglamourous and utilitarian items, but for workers left totally broke, they...
Steady and focussed, reports Committee at AGM 2012
Reporting on yet another successful year helping 1,908 migrant workers, the Executive Committee of Transient Workers Count Too described an organisation that is in steady hands, very focussed on its mission, at the Annual General Meeting held on March 25, 2012. Of these 1,908 workers, 1,458 came through the helpdesk of our Cuff Road Project,...
Cake was sweet, but Cuff Road 4th anniversary festivities bittersweet
A crush of more than 230 out-of-work migrant labourers crowded in and around Isthana Restaurant in Little India Thursday night, March 15, 2012, to celebrate the fourth anniversary of Transient Workers Count Too’s Cuff Road Project. The programme provides hundreds of free meals every day to migrant workers who are stranded in Singapore without incomes...
Facebook 'Likes’ cross 1,000
March 9, 2012, marked a little milestone for Transient Workers Count Too. The number of ‘Likes’ on our Facebook page crossed 1,000, reaching 1,017 on the morning of March 10., as can be seen from the screen capture above. When we revamped and relaunched our website on November 1, 2011, with a bit of integration...
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....
