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Transient Workers Count Too works on a number of different fronts, ranging from engaging with policy makers to frontline assistance for migrant workers in need. Our work can roughly be divided into four categories:
- Advocacy and public outreach
- Research
- Cuff Road Food Programme
- Direct Services and the Care Fund
Workers in need typically come to know of us by word of mouth. They also find our Cuff Road Food Programme a useful face-to-face contact point; they learn through friends that if they show up at 6:30 or 7 p.m. on any weekday evening, they will find our volunteers there who can help explain to them what recourse they have given their situation.
Because our Cuff Road programme serves Indian and Bangladeshi food, we tend to get more cases from these communities than Chinese workers or Indonesian and Filipina domestic workers. These other groups tend to reach us via our hotline.
Occasionally, workers are trapped in their places of work, or confined by repatriation agents against their will. Our staff and volunteers try our best to get the police or ministry officials to go rescue the workers; wherever possible, we accompany these officials so that the rescued workers have someone they can talk to immediately and get assistance. As one can imagine, cases appear at all times of the day and night; but when people are being threatened with unjustified deportation or put in fear of physical harm, time is of the essence.
Who we are – Executive Committee President: Russell HENG Hiang Khng, President since the AGM in March 2011, joined TWC2 shortly after it was formed in 2003. He has since held the position of Secretary, Treasurer and Vice-President. He has a PhD in Political Science from the Australian National University and was a researcher...
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From TWC2 members’ newsletter, Sept-Oct 2009: Sometimes TWC2 has calls about domestic workers who don’t get enough food to eat. There are not many – just eight last year, for example – but we know other organisations receive similar calls. This is a serious type of abuse and so even a small number of cases...
Posted on January 20, 2010 in Articles, StoriesHas it ever struck you that out of every five people in Singapore, one is a transient worker? Do you find yourself with free time, which you would like to use for helping others? Do you want to make a difference in the lives of people who built the house you are living in? Have...
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