Mosques will play a key role in the NTUC U Care Centre's (UCC) push to inform low income workers in the Malay/Muslim community about employment rights and training opportunities. The centre will team up with Singapore mosques to customise programmes and hold workshops for these workers.
UCC director Zanial Sapari said Malay/Muslim workers form fewer than 10 per cent of participants at employment seminars and roadshows. "So we've decided to take a more targeted approach by going to places where there will be many of them", he said. The centre, he added, aims to reach out to 10,000 low wage workers in the Malay/Muslim community this year.
Programmes on the cards include talks at mosques on issue like employment rights, and training youth volunteers and those in the Mosque Befrienders Scheme to explain these issues when they visit low wage workers.
Thoughts:
- It is interesting to note that how the unions are reaching out via the mosques to engage a critical mass of a particular community. I think this is an innovative approach, and shows how the religious and secular parties can work together to benefit the community.
Thoughts anyone?
Yours,
Something Small Thinking Big
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