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CDE strengthens support capabilities for foreign domestic workers through new shelter Centre for Domestic Workers (CDE) has been actively promoting healthy employer-employee relationship to help improve the foreign domestic workers (FDWs) landscape in Singapore. As employer-employee relationships can be delicate, FDW-related conflicts might still occur. If there are such cases, CDE stands ready to support our FDWs and provide advisory to the employers. Given the rising number of FDWs in Singapore, CDE is expanding their capabilities to better manage such conflicts should they arise. Mobile CDE that is regularly deployed to the community to provide on-the-spot advice and mediation services for FDWs and employers is one good example. The next capability that CDE is building upon is their shelter for FDWs.
CDE currently provides shelter to about 50 distressed FDWs and plans to launch a new shelter for FDWs in the second quarter of 2017. The shelter will be located on the East1 of the island. With the shelter, CDE’s housing capabilities will reach 150.
Most FDWs who are placed in shelter are often those who are embroiled in disputes: disputes with authorities, employment agencies or even their own employers. Those embroiled in disputes also tend to experience greater mental distress.
Unlike other shelters, CDE’s shelter will provide targeted counselling and mediation services to this vulnerable group of FDWs. As the time spent in the shelter may be indefinite, CDE will tap on the time element and provide them with opportunities to learn new skills. CDE has plans to partner like-minded organisations to conduct trainings at the shelters for displaced FDWs. These trainings will help FDWs keep physically and mentally active, thus catering to their psychological and sociological needs.
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