The campaign encourages people to post notes, and organises virtual talks between residents and migrant workers. FMTNews Bangkok Covid19
Workers from Bangladesh, India, China awaiting food distribution at Punggol S-11 dormitory on April 6.
The country has vowed to improve living conditions for migrant workers in the short-term, and build new dormitories for 100,000 workers over the next few years.Some of these sites – including empty public housing apartments and schools – are in residential neighbourhoods, and comments on social media about risks to security, health and property prices drew a sharp response from the government.
The pandemic has drawn attention to the stark inequalities in the wealthy city-state, where more than 300,000 labourers from Bangladesh, India and China often live in rooms for 12 to 20 men, working jobs that pay as little as S$20 a day. “Singaporeans are not used to having migrant workers stay so close to them,” said Alex Au, vice-president of the Singaporean non-profit Transient Workers Count Too.
To support workers relocated in residential neighbourhoods, a group of Singaporeans have launched a #WelcomeInMyBackyard social media campaign.
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