TWC2

Founded in 2003, Transient Workers Count Too (TWC2) is a non-profit organisation in Singapore dedicated to improving conditions for low-wage migrant workers. Functioning with a small groups of staff and volunteers, TWC2 has become a valuable agency in helping migrant workers.

Aidha

Set up in 2006, Aidha is teaches financial literacy and confidence skills to foreign domestic workers and lower-income Singaporean women. To date, the charity has impacted over 36,000 women, family and community members in some of the poorest countries in Asia.

The Dorsal Effect

One person’s efforts - to protect the dwindling shark population in Lombok, Indonesia, while finding more sustainable ways for the fisherman to earn a livelihood.

Runninghour

Formed in 2009, Runninghour is a sports co-operative promoting integration of persons with special needs through running. Members of the public are welcome to volunteer and join as buddy runners to special needs members.

Chapter W

Formerly known as Nusantara Development Intiatives (NDI), Chapter W focuses on what it considers a basic need: light. This Singapore-based non-profit trains and equips rural women to become solar lamp entrepreneurs, and has empowered 186 women to date.

Project Ballet Futures

Project Ballet Futures has been going strong since 2008, and currently has 25 students from the Philippine Christian Foundation in Tondo and public elementary and high schools in Pasay City, Makati City and Manila.