Announcements and upcoming events:
If you are interested in helping out, our next volunteer orientation session (“Heartbeat”) will be held on Thursday 23 March 2023, at 7:30pm, and will take approximately one hour. It will be an in-person meeting in the Little India area. At a Heartbeat session, we will describe the different volunteering opportunities available and if you find a fit with your time and interests, you can then sign up as a volunteer (no obligation to do so). If you wish to attend this session, please send an email to info@twc2.org.sg with the header “Interested in Heartbeat, 23 March 2023”. We will get back to you with the precise location.
In case you have visited our office before and are familiar with our old address, please note that we are at a new location. Details can be found here.
Transient Workers Count Too has been made aware of job advertisements for a purported social enterprise named “Transient workers provident fund (TWPF)”. We have no connection with nor knowledge of any such venture.
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