Happenings

27 10, 2015

Lunch with Heart — TWC2’s annual benefit event is here again

webmaster2019-08-30T16:32:24+08:00October 27th, 2015|Articles, Happenings, News, News Flash|

Our annual benefit event -- Lunch with Heart -- will be held on Sunday 13 December 2015. Tickets are now available at$80 each. Even if you cannot make it, it would be great if you could purchase tickets and donate them back. Each donated ticket will be used to sponsor a worker to a wonderful

1 08, 2015

TWC2 opens Day Space — to rest, learn, serve and grow

webmaster2019-08-30T16:32:26+08:00August 1st, 2015|Articles, Facts, research, analysis, Happenings|

As the organisation grows, having adequate space is always a challenge. In June 2015, an opportunity came up: the space above one of the restaurants where we serve our free meals under the Cuff Road Project became available. With rent at a very reasonable rate, TWC2 took it over for use as our Day Space.

16 06, 2015

TWC2 celebrates International Domestic Workers’ Day

webmaster2019-08-30T16:32:29+08:00June 16th, 2015|Articles, Happenings|

The ballroom at the Fort Canning Lodge was filled with excitement as 150 domestic workers filed in to take their seats around the fifteen big round dining tables. The workers wasted no time and started to pose for photographs with the decorations and backdrop for the event as pop music blared in the background. This

15 06, 2015

Outreach to workers, June 2015

webmaster2019-08-30T16:32:30+08:00June 15th, 2015|Articles, Happenings|

TWC2's monthly outreach took place on 14 June 2015 at Boon Lay. Two social workers, three interns and eight volunteers participated. Led by social worker Louis Ong, they fanned out to distribute TWC2 flyers and speak to workers to introduce the ways we can help them. We stress that our services are provided free of

29 04, 2015

100 women who care about TWC2

webmaster2019-08-30T16:32:32+08:00April 29th, 2015|Articles, Happenings|

By Russell Heng On an afternoon in March 2015, Vanessa Hardinge spoke passionately to a room of colleagues and friends about how tough life can be for many foreign workers in Singapore. At the end of her speech, Transient Workers Count Too was richer by $7,600. Meanwhile TWC2 was totally unaware of what was happening.

23 04, 2015

TWC2 partners with Ogilvy & Mather to call on employers to give domestic workers their due day off

webmaster2019-08-30T16:32:32+08:00April 23rd, 2015|Articles, Happenings, News, Press Releases|

Press Release 23 April 2015 In the run up to International Workers’ Day, or Labour Day, on May 1, TWC2 has partnered with Ogilvy & Mather (O&M) to launch a campaign urging employers to grant a weekly day off to their domestic workers. As part of the campaign, O&M has created a short film

28 03, 2015

Wide and wider our circle expands

webmaster2019-08-30T16:32:53+08:00March 28th, 2015|Articles, Happenings|

By Russell Heng A line from an old song I know underlines TWC2’s experience when staff at Barclays, Singapore raised $25,670 for us in 2 hours of one afternoon. It goes, “Wider and wider our circle expands”. Let’s start at the very beginning. In September a bank staff Deepak Siddappa wrote to say they are

13 03, 2015

New case management software comes on stream

webmaster2019-08-30T16:32:53+08:00March 13th, 2015|Articles, Happenings|

Alex Au (L) and Pat Meyer (R) discuss setting priorities, while Miguel Pina (C) tests out how to import old data from spreadsheets into the new system The first week of March opened with many fingers crossed. Transient Workers Count Too's new Case Management System (Camans) was going live. The new application would

8 12, 2014

Hive of activity as TWC2 crosses into second decade

webmaster2019-08-30T16:32:56+08:00December 8th, 2014|Articles, Happenings|

In a triple celebration 7 December 2014, TWC2 marked its tenth anniversary and International Migrants Day with a benefit event Lunch with Heart. Under the glass dome of Kebabs and Curries atop Mustafa Centre, TWC2's largest-ever event had hundreds of attendees in constant motion, from food to games to meeting old friends and making new

1 12, 2014

Over the years, migrant workers have faced ‘deteriorating conditions’ — John Gee

webmaster2019-08-30T16:32:56+08:00December 1st, 2014|Articles, Happenings, News, Our Stand|

At a symposium organised by the Asia Research Institute, TWC2 head of research John Gee said that whilst globally, there had never been better protection in law for migrants' rights, yet in many respects, their actual position was going backwards. Even in Singapore, he felt there has been progress, but placement costs represent one area in which