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18 01, 2015

With each job here, Saide gets poorer

2019-08-30T16:32:54+08:00January 18th, 2015|Articles, Stories|

By Lindene Cleary His first job didn't even last a year, losing out on unpaid salaries. His second job lasted barely a week, with him having to foot hospital bills. His personal finances are awash in red ink. We all suffer from accidents and bad luck from time to time. We miss the bus, we

14 01, 2015

Deeply in debt, Musfiqur stays cheerful

2019-08-30T16:32:54+08:00January 14th, 2015|Articles, Stories|

By Ashley Frois We're barely under the eaves. Rain, like troubles, pours down mere inches from our seats. Everything is damp. Two seats away and drier, a fellow volunteer is interviewing another construction worker, Rahman Sadequr. That worker is speaking morosely of his money problems. My interviewee, Musfiqur (pictured above), is strangely upbeat. He too

3 01, 2015

The death loan

2019-08-30T16:32:54+08:00January 3rd, 2015|Articles, Stories|

By Seema Punwani "I cannot go back! If I go back I die. I die". Rahman keeps repeating in his broken English. His friend who is kindly acting as a translator tries to calm him down and entreats him to explain his predicament in detail. And so begins Rahman's story -- sadly not very unlike

21 12, 2014

Feroz the accountant

2019-08-30T16:32:55+08:00December 21st, 2014|Articles, Stories|

By Walter Wadiak As I sit down to do my first interview with a migrant worker, I’m looking for problems. Perhaps a story about an uncompensated injury — I have already seen plenty of these in my few visits here. Maybe I will find a man whose meagre salary has been either underpaid or not

4 12, 2014

In lawyers they trust, until…

2019-08-30T16:32:56+08:00December 4th, 2014|Articles, Stories|

By Keith Wong "He do nothing," says Tariqul of his lawyer. Tariqul's medical assessment was "more than three months" ago, and he's been waiting to hear how many "points" (a measure of permanent disability) has been awarded for his leg injury. But his lawyer keeps on telling him to "wait, wait". That's the same answer

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