SINGAPORE, April 23 — Pastor Samuel Gift Stephen spends his days trying to ensure migrant workers in Singapore, confined to cramped dormitories due to an outbreak of coronavirus, all remain well fed. He runs one of a number of non-governmental organisations working with authorities and employers...
Thursday, 23 Apr 2020 10:00 AM MYT
He runs one of a number of non-governmental organisations working with authorities and employers to deliver meals to dormitories where workers are either under government quarantine or ordered to stay home to curb transmission of the disease. “Employers are supposed to provide catered food to their employees. And the truth to the matter is that...some of them don't have the muscle power, they don't have the financial power because of this financial crunch,” Stephen, chairman of AGWO, said as he unloaded bags of plastic containers from the back of a van to dormitories yesterday.
Stephen said his organisation arranges for caterers to cook and deliver meals at least twice a day for certain dormitories - an initiative funded by charitable donations. The Ministry of Manpower has previously said that NGOs like AGWO are helping deliver 7,000 meals a day to workers.
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