Migrant welfare group to triple volunteers by 2020

Singapore

THE Migrant Workers' Centre in Singapore, backed by the Ministry of Manpower (MOM), the National Trades Union Congress and employers, hope to more than triple the number of volunteer ambassadors to shed greater light on problems this community faces.

Currently, there are 1,500 ambassadors who are part of a volunteer scheme that was set up by the MWC in 2013.

MWC chairman Yeo Guat Kwang on Sunday announced that they hoped to raise the number to 5,000 by 2020.

At the appreciation dinner for 1,000 workers on Sunday, held to mark International Migrants' Day on Dec 18, Mr Yeo said that such a network of ambassadors can help the MWC "run an extra mile to reach out to foreign workers to make them feel assured that they can get help, and put down their psychological barriers (ab…