Important events where our volunteers, staff and well-wishers make a difference, sometimes in surprisingly creative ways

18 12, 2015

Lunch with Heart raises record amount for TWC2

2019-08-30T16:32:22+08:00December 18th, 2015|Articles, Happenings|

Transient Workers Count Too held our annual benefit lunch (Lunch with Heart) Sunday 13 December 2015. We sold a record 335 tickets, raising over $33,000 -- also a new record. Most well-wishers donated back their tickets so that we could invite workers on their behalf to have a good meal. A total of 100 domestic

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29 10, 2015

Call for proposals: Labour Court research project

2019-08-30T16:32:23+08:00October 29th, 2015|Articles, Facts, research, analysis, Happenings, News, News Flash|

TWC2 is seeking collaborators to help us undertake research on Singapore's Labour Court system at the Ministry of Manpower, specifically procedures and practices relating to the salary and injury claims of migrant workers. Research will include a review of legislation and legislative history governing salary and injury claims in Labour Court and an overview of

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16 06, 2015

TWC2 celebrates International Domestic Workers’ Day

2019-08-30T16:32:29+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

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15 06, 2015

Outreach to workers, June 2015

2019-08-30T16:32:30+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

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29 04, 2015

100 women who care about TWC2

2019-08-30T16:32:32+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.

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23 04, 2015

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

2019-08-30T16:32:32+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

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28 03, 2015

Wide and wider our circle expands

2019-08-30T16:32:53+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

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13 03, 2015

New case management software comes on stream

2019-08-30T16:32:53+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

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