Listings are sorted by most urgent and/or time-sensitive requests. When you read a listing, you will see the title that looks like this: ‘F(M01)’. Under the title, you will see the sum requested, how much of that sum has been fulfilled, and you can read more about the circumstances around the specific request. When you click ‘Contact Coordinator’, a drop-down section with the coordinators PayLah! QR Code and contact information will appear, and you can make your contribution to the listing through them. If you would prefer to make a recurring standing monthly contribution to migrant mutual aid, you can click ‘Contribute Now’ on our homepage and it will bring you to our Standing Solidarity Fund donation box.
You can also choose to filter listings by the categories below, to get a more customised view of our listings.
For example, if the listing is titled F (M01), ‘F’ is used as an alias of the worker’s name. ‘M’ corresponds with the type of need e.g. ‘M’ for Medical, ‘F’ for Food Insecurity, ‘P’ for Phone & Communications, and ‘A’ for Agent Fees. The number is the case number that we assign.
Both the Excel spreadsheet and the website tallies are updated manually. Our coordinators update the Excel spreadsheet as soon as they can after receiving contributions, therefore, the Excel spreadsheet is always going to have the most up to date information. Our website is updated every 24 hours.
Once the need is fully met, coordinators will make a final QR code transfer to the workers, and send us the transaction history of all individual contributions received from members of the public. We safekeep all this data.
Fulfilled listings are moved to a different page. We keep them on both the website and the excel sheet for transparency and accountability. If you happen to contribute to a listing that was recently fulfilled, your money will be redistributed to the next most urgent listing.
We send the total amount fundraised to the worker at the point of the deadline.
The coordinator has two important roles.
We use Stripe, which charges 3.4% + 50 cents per successful card charge. This means that if you choose to contribute $100, $96.10 is received by us and will be redistributed to workers on our listings.
100% of all funds received (from both direct transfers to coordinators & contributions to our Standing Solidarity Fund) are redistributed directly to workers on our listings.
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‘RK’ is a 39-year-old construction worker from Tamil Nadu, India.
He worked in Singapore as a scaffolding worker for 14 years, from 2010 to 2024.
His salary of 700-800 SGD/ month went towards supporting his family of 6, consisting of his wife, 2 children (aged 10 & 5) & his elderly parents.
In December 2024, RK experienced acute stomach pain and was hospitalised locally. Medical tests uncover that he had kidney stones. In January 2025, RK was given 15 days of medical leave but unable to take the pain, he took 1 month of unpaid leave & flew back to India. There, doctors gave him an injection that stopped the pain. However, when he returned to Singapore in February, the pain started again. A doctor advised him to undergo an operation to remove the kidney stones. RK subsequently resigns and flies home on 18 February 2025, as he wanted to get the surgery at home so that he can have his family’s care after the operation. From 21 – 24 February 2025, RK is hospitalised & underwent Retrograde Intrarenal Surgery (RIRS) to remove the kidney stones.
Since RK stopped receiving an income, his wife & 60-year-old father have been supporting the family. They both work as farmhands. The work is physically demanding & it is neither continuous nor guaranteed. They earn 300 INR (4.60 SGD) a day. It is difficult for the family to survive on these wages. To afford RK’s medical treatment, RK’s father had to take a loan of 150,000 INR/2,303 SGD from his employer. For the past 2 months, the employer has kept RK’s father’s wages as part of the loan interest.
The employer is demanding that at least half the loan is repaid by April 2025. We hope to support RK in repaying the full loan amount so that his family can break free of the debt cycle. The detailed cost breakdown of RK’s medical expenses is listed below:
| Medical bills | Cost (INR) |
| Medicine | 13,120.77 |
| Uro-surgical profile | 3,450 |
| Urology consultation charges | 500 |
| Kidney stones procedure | 128,428 |
| ECG and chest x-ray | 775 |
| CT scan | 4,850 |
| Total medical bills | 151,123.77 |
Apart from the loan repayment, we also hope to support RK’s family with 2 months of living expenses as his father and wife’s income is not enough to support the family and RK can only start looking for work again after fully recovering from his condition. The detailed breakdown of living expenses is listed below:
| Living expenses | Cost (INR) |
| House rent | 4,500 |
| Electric bill | 1,100 |
| Food | 20,000 |
| Kids’ school allowance | 2,000 |
| Total living expenses per month | 27,600 |
| Total living expenses for 2 months | 55,200 |
We are seeking to raise $3,151 in the next week.
Send your contribution to the coordinator Tanisha using the QR code above.
If you do not use PayLah!, contact Tanisha via @olive_backed_sunbird to discuss other payment modes.
Please note that your PayLah! nickname will be reflected on the excel spreadsheet for accountability.
Send your contribution to the coordinator Tanisha using the QR code above.
If you do not use PayLah!, contact Tanisha via @olive_backed_sunbird to discuss other payment modes.
Please note that your PayLah! nickname will be reflected on the excel spreadsheet for accountability.
PayLah! our coordinators directly via the QR code on the Listings tab; or contact coordinators via Telegram for other ways to make a transfer to them.
Make a one-time or monthly recurring payment to SSF via the PayNow QR code/phone number or make a direct bank transfer. Details on the right (or below on mobile). SSF contributions go to a dedicated bank account from which we disburse funds directly to support migrant workers (prioritising the most urgent cases) and our ongoing fundraisers. A small portion of the fund goes towards the admin costs of running this website (domain, server, etc) and logistics costs for events.
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