By Lee Kah Ghim “I see helmet throw at worker, supervisor kick worker. Every fault supervisor also hit.” Sanjit Debuath tells me. “One time supervisor ask worker go outside, supervisor hit him. Worker call police then next day worker sent back to Bangladesh.” During the fourteen months he worked at a Korean construction company --

Shah Alam hopes to go home soon. It's better than staying on in Singapore, sleeping on the streets. "Now raining season, got big problem for me," he says. "Even at night not raining, floor also wet." To wash himself each day, he depends on the kindness of a restaurant owner in Little India. "Over

By Benjamin Wong Ilias Mir Anisur (above left) and Badal Barai (right)  are part of the third group of workers from the same company, Lian Shing Construction Co Pte Ltd, to approach TWC2 for help. Despite so many workers lodging complaints with the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) over a 12-month period, the company is still

By Nigel Lin He gives us a big smile now, but in the evening of 12 May 2012, he lay writhing in pain after a nasty fall off the top rungs of his ladder -- a scene like this and you would expect this poor soul to be receiving medical attention immediately. Not for Fasal

By Asha R He came to make a living, but ended up thousands of dollars poorer. Rony Nurul Islam, 36, is a quiet man with an easy smile, but get him talking about how he ended up in TWC2's soup kitchen, and the frustration starts pouring out of him. Rony came to Singapore in July

Anowar Hossain (above right) was financially desperate ten months after the accident at his worksite. He had been terminated from his shipyard job and received no income since. To pay for food and lodgings, he relied on borrowing. At some point, even friends and relatives tired of lending money without end. Despite having suffered a

By Benjamin Wong It is seven in the evening. The crowd at the TWC2's Cuff Road meal project starts to pick up and workers slowly stream towards the restaurant. They wait in queue, decked out in varied attire -- some are in jeans, others in bermudas, with their t-shirts and polo-tees. Among them, one man