Stories about workers’ experiences, the many ways our volunteers help, insights and facts that TWC2 have unearthed
The Ministry of Manpower announced new dormitory standards in September 2021. They're nearly all about control and surveillance, not comfort and wellbeing.
Covid-19 is not the only easily transmissible disease around. There's another and it's been killing more people for years. Yet, we didn't lock up our workers.
Far from justifying continued confinement of migrant workers in dorms, the cluster in Westlite Juniper shows how hollow the argument for confinement is.
This research study mapped the unique obstacles (and enablers) to Covid-19 vaccination pertinent to migrant domestic workers in Singapore.
The doctor said he had to operate, telling the patient not to worry about the cost since the employer should have insurance cover. "What?" she said. "I didn't know."
Danny was faced with a $34,000 hospital bill and was looking for help. Our first questions were: Why isn't the employer paying? What's the law for?
MOM gave this figure in a parliamentary reply. It's only a topline number. Look beneath it and it's a scene of buzzing flies.
A day by day account of how TWC2 helped a worker get treatment without delay after he fell down a flight of stairs.
A TWC2 volunteer went for a walk and came across a six-metre high hoarding. What is the ugliness that it is trying to hide from our view?
Two maid abuse cases together throw a spotlight on an underlying issue: the difficulty migrant workers face when trying to get out of unhappy jobs.
