SINGAPORE – Around $500,000 has been raised by the business community to help migrant workers who have been hit hard by the Covid-19 pandemic, said the Association of Small and Medium Enterprises (ASME) on Thursday (June 18).
The sum comprises $300,000 donated by 77 businesses and individuals associated with ASME and $200,000 from the Singapore Business Federation (SBF) Foundation.
The money will go to an assistance fund run by the Migrant Workers’ Centre (MWC) that provides emergency help in the form of accommodation, meals, ex-gratia payments and other forms of financial support to workers caught in wage disputes or injured at work.
