Just 2 days ago, walking back from train station to babe’s place. Along the way, a short distance away, I saw 4 migrant workers sitting by the stairs and 1 migrant worker sitting opposite each other. I quickly turned to babe and said don’t walk the stairs!
I believe many of us, just like me actually turn our back as far as possible when we saw migrants workers congregate at a point each time, and believe that they are zooming their eyes on you! Right?..
Look at them!
They are all migrant workers with minor injuries and agent duped them by not engaging them to work! Do you know that most domestic workers are at present paid between $300 and $400 a month?They work and get paid, they dun work and they get NOTHING.
The pay of a worker with no day off and a salary of $350 therefore work out at $11.67 a day. Long hours for like 15 hour a day and this would mean a worker being paid 78 cents an hour.
They have to work at least 4 hours a day to buy a proper meal!
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Article from a NewsNation forum
Mr Elamurugan Chellan lost all 10 toes on both feet to melioidosis, also known as soil disease. After contracting the disease while working here as a construction worker in November 2006, the 28-year-old Indian national suffered multiple organ failure.
Mr Elamurugan job involved digging trenches 3m to 5m deep for cables to be laid in the ground and that’s how he contacted such disease.He said in Tamil: 'We all wore long-sleeved tops, long pants and rubber boots for work. But from time to time, muddy water would still seep into our boots.'
The doctor told him the toes had become gangrenous and could not be operated on.
Then came the shock. His toes would most likely 'auto amputate', or drop off on their own, in the next six months. Which means, within 6 months, he toes will drop off on it own!!
Can you imagine it?
EACH time one of his toes dropped off, he would cry as he wrapped it in paper before throwing it away.
Can you imagine that your toes dropped off and you have to wrap it and dump into the rubbish bin? Can you imagine without toes, he could not keep his balance and had to use a walking aid supplied by the hospital to get around.
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Now, since March 2008 - The Cuff Road Project has provided 100,000 meals to thousands of men. Currently serving 450 meals a day, breakfast, lunch and dinner are available at four participating restaurants. Where each meal costs only $2!
Food cannot substitute wages, but the men are comforted by the food!
To sustain the destitute workers until the end of the year, S$70,000 is need for The Cuff Road Project to carry on.
Will you give them a hand by donating an insignificant amount of $2 to them?They pave the road for us, they worked under the scorching sun and wet raining days. $2 is seriously, indeed and honestly nothing to us but to them is a meal.
It’s time to do something..
2 comments:
Thanks for the post, Celine dear!! <3
My pleasure dear! =)
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