ItsRainingRaincoats raised more than S$6,000 within a few hours to help Mr Mia Md Aha, who had been in Singapore for less than two weeks when he found out he had tuberculosis.
SINGAPORE: Bangladeshi worker Mia Md Ahad’s one-year-old dream of earning a living in Singapore and supporting his family came crashing down less than two weeks after he arrived in the country.
Mr Ahad, 20, paid an agency 1 million Bangladeshi taka in order to come to Singapore – a third of this amount was from his and his family’s savings, and the remaining borrowed from relatives and banks. His friend got in touch with Ms Tricia Hannah Teo, a banker who volunteers with IRR, who paid for Mr Ahad to see a doctor and informed other people in the organisation about his plight.
“If my son had gone to another country and this fate had befallen him, and he was somewhere all by himself, I would want some force of God, some agent of God on Earth, to do something to help him,” she told CNA.Within around three hours, IRR volunteers and donors came together to raise funds, managing to pass S$2,000 to him before he boarded the plane home on Jan 4. They later transferred him another S$4,200.
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