Celebrating Deepavali with 2,000 Migrant Workers at Penjuru

In collaboration with the Ministry of Manpower's Assurance, Care and Engagement Group (ACE Group) and Cornerstone Community Services, we organised a Deepavali carnival to celebrate with our migrant brothers at Penjuru Recreation Centre on 24 October.

Our migrant brothers were happy they could celebrate Deepavali after two years of muted festivities due to Covid-19 restrictions.

This year, we focused on games, health screening and education programmes to encourage migrant workers to keep up their mental and physical well-being.

Thank you to FG Concepts for generously sponsoring water bottles and umbrellas to give out to our migrant brothers.

We are glad to have brought festive cheer to over 2,000 migrant brothers!

A Celebration of Resilience

The carnival was featured on Channel News Asia and The Straits Times, where our founder and project lead, Tam Wai Jia, shared about what the celebration meant to migrant workers.

She said the carnival not only celebrated a meaningful holiday for migrant workers, but it also was a way of commemorating their resilience throughout the pandemic.

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Outstanding FACE Award

The Friends of ACE (FACE) Network was introduced by the Ministry of Manpower in February 2021 to deepen engagement and strengthen social support for the migrant workforce. The FACE Award 2021 aims to recognise the contributions of partners and migrant worker volunteers in uplifting the wellbeing of migrant workers.

My Brother SG is proud to be listed among many other organisations who are passionate about supporting migrant workers.

View the complete award booklet here.

My Brother SG Publications Featured on The Communication Initiative

We had the privilege of partnering with The Communication Initiative (The CI) to feature our RCCE toolkit and training manual on their hub.

The CI is an online knowledge portal and networking space designed for the international development community and anyone interested in communication for social development and change. They collate and share knowledge (programmes, reports, resource materials) from many different organisations working in this field.

See our publications featured on the CI:

1. Training Manual for Face-to-Face Migrant Worker Engagement: Socially Distanced, Humanly Connected

2. A Guide to Effective RCCE Engagement in Large, Closed Communities: An Evolving Network in RCCE in the COVID-19 Migrant Worker Outbreak in Singapore

RCCE Toolkit Featured on GOARN

Our RCCE toolkit was featured on GOARN.

Our toolkit serves as a reference tool for community mobilizers.  It is intended to provide guidance for designing and implementing RCCE approaches, based on our team’s experience during the COVID-19 outbreak. This publication has been supported by the German Federal Ministry of Health (BMG) COVID-19 Research and development funding to the World Health Organisation (WHO).

The toolkit is available to download on our site at www.mybrother.sg/research-case-studies.