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AWAY FROM HOME, A PLACE TO CALL H.O.M.E.

•• Without appropriate counsel, domestic workers may suffer in silence rather than risk getting sent back to their home countries. Or they may also be forced to leave without a trial due to the lack of evidence. Other times, as it takes a considerable amount of time for investigations to be completed, these workers would simply choose to return home as there is nowhere here that they can go to for shelter and no one here to help them.

This is where HOME steps in.

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HEALTH SERVICES FOR MIGRANT WORKERS AND MORE

•• Shin Yong is co-founder and manager of HealthServe, a social enterprise that was set up in 2006 and which caters largely to the needs of the migrant workers in Singapore. "Migrant workers make up a significant part of our workforce of about a quarter," said Shin Yong. "But they are also the ones who lack most access to healthcare services. Hence, we set up HealthServe to fill this gap."

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SCHOOL FOR WELLBEING:
ANNUAL SUMMER COURSE


•• School for Wellbeing's annual summer course in 2010 consists of a four-week participatory learning experience, including a study visit to Bhutan, the country of Gross National Happiness (GNI), and excursions to "new paradigm" projects of social development in Thailand. For more information, visit the School for Wellbeing website here.


•• Read more » 		SOCIAL CONVERSATIONS:
ENGAGING WOMEN AT THE BOTTOM
OF THE PYRAMID

•• For the next Social Conversations session, the Lien Centre for Social Innovation has invited Chandra Shekhar Ghosh, founder Chairman of Bandhan, one of India's leading micro-finance institution. He is also Senior Ashoka Fellow and on the Governing Board of SA-DHAN, the primary association of Microfinance Institutions of India, as well as READ India. Businesses, organisations and individuals interested in idea generation and discussion may register here.

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Bloomerang

•• BloomerHang is a win-win situation for both buyers and advertisers as well as users and the environment. Buyers get the hangers at a lower price, while advertisers, especially those with a green focus, get their green message reenforced in their advertising and users can dispose them guiltlessly.

Social Conversation
Thursday, 6th May 2010

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