TWC2 activity: volunteering
22
02, 2021
TWC2 holds a carnival at Penjuru
With migrant workers still confined to their dormitories, TWC2 holds a carnival near a cluster of dorms to cheer them up and offer any help they need.
11
01, 2021
Through deliveries, a window into long-existing injustice and inequality
Reflections on the pandemic: how helping workers with small essential needs reveals their vulnerabilities and the injustices they suffer.
24
10, 2020
Moving mountains to remove 3cm of metal wire
Rana needed a small medical procedure to remove a wire implant that has outlived its usefulness. Bureaucracy and faulty government policy stood in the way.
7
08, 2020
I delivered essential items and this is what I learned
For months, men have been confined to dorms, unable to go out to buy daily necessities they might need. TWC2's SEN team delivered little things that made life more bearable.
29
07, 2020
Dear teachers,
Why we don't reply to some student requests and a cheatsheet for students trying to write about migrant workers
13
07, 2020
Water, water every where, but three cups a day to drink
If being locked up in dormitories through Covid-19 was bad, being held on a ship was worse. On reaching out to workers there, we heard cries for deliverance.
1
06, 2020
Covid-19: Tales from the ground, part 4
Workers' experiences during the lock-down: a sister helping another who lost her job, a worker who came to Singapore and found a missing employer, a worker stuck here worried about his collapsing house...
19
05, 2020
Covid-19: Tales from the ground, part 3
Workers' experiences during the lock-down: about anxiety, life in a temporary hospital, vanishing salaries, financial disaster. Also about the things going on at TWC2: donations pouring in and volunteers running around.
13
05, 2020
Nearly 300 men at risk of eviction and homelessness get rent money from TWC2
We laid out $85,000 to help some migrant workers keep a roof over their heads. These workers, having lost their jobs, are in more difficult situations than those in dorms. Includes video story from TRT World.
7
05, 2020
Covid-19: Tales from the ground, part 2
Workers tell us of their experiences during the lock-down. Here is a miscellaneous collection of their direct experiences -- about insufficient toilets, insufficient food and all sorts of inconveniences due to the lockdown.