Musician raises money to buy food from hawkers and give it to migrant workers. Steady pom pi pi!!!!!

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Local musician Shabir Tabare Alam felt moved after reading about the plight of elderly hawkers during the pandemic
He started WeEat with migrant worker support groups to raise funds for bulk purchases from hawkers
Volunteers deliver the food to migrant workers so that they can have a taste of local fare
Members of the public and even migrant workers themselves have stepped forward to donate over S$8,000 for the initiative so far


SINGAPORE — During the phase of heightened alert in the last month, hawker Noorjahan Manja Shahul Hamid has mostly been sitting outside her stall on the second floor of Amoy Street Food Centre, nursing a nagging worry that she may have to close for good.

With dining-in banned during this period and most people working from home, Ms Noorjahan, 59, has seen little footfall at her Indian Muslim stall, Bismillah.

So when someone made a bulk order last week, she thought it was a scam.

“In my heart, there was some doubt about whether this was for real. It would have been a pain if I cooked everything and they did not come to collect the food,” Ms Noorjahan told TODAY in an interview last week.

But her fears were laid to rest when a volunteer from the Covid-19 Migrant Support Coalition (CMSC), a ground-up initiative championing migrant worker issues, dropped by last Saturday to collect and deliver the 170 packets of Maggi goreng to a dormitory.

Read more at https://www.todayonline.com/singapo...s-struggling-hawkers-provides-migrant-workers