My engagement this time was an interview with another TWC2 volunteer Ms Mizue Sauco. Our interview was mainly based around the situation of the dormitories when the rise of infections was about to happen. As Ms Sauco answered my questions, she explained to me what was going on in the begging of the Covid-19 crisis, […]
Month: May 2020
Engagement #2
I applied as a volunteer for the organisation Transient Workers Count Too, which works for migrant workers. Due to Covid-19, I was unable to work as a volunteer, but I was able to join in the orientation session. The volunteer work I was planning to participate in was called the Cuffs Road Project, which serves […]
Engagement #3
In this engagement, I attended the online forum of the Institute of Policy Studies which discussed the ‘Policy Responses and Lessons from the Covid-19 Pandemic.’ The first panellist Mr Jeremy Lim talked about the conditions the migrant workers were put at in height of the pandemic, and also what had let the infection numbers rise […]
What lockdown has taught me about
Lockdown has bought me to explore new sides of myself-and thinking what I actually want to do. First of all, I found out that I wasn’t too bad at self-entertaining myself, and I actually had a lot of things that I wanted to do–for example cook, read books, explore more music, and so on. One […]
EE Initial Reflection
My EE will be based on the impact of participation of women in the 2016 peace process in Colombia. War and conflict as a very significant political issue which involves many actors-quite often negatively, and I was always interested in how they could end through peace processes. Upon this, I came across gender and war […]