{"id":98257,"date":"2026-11-08T11:52:06","date_gmt":"2026-11-08T03:52:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=98257"},"modified":"2026-11-08T11:52:06","modified_gmt":"2026-11-08T03:52:06","slug":"migrant-workers-get-free-bus-rides-care-packs-as-singapore-celebrates-deepavali-singapore-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=98257","title":{"rendered":"Migrant workers get free bus rides, care packs as Singapore celebrates Deepavali, Singapore News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>In the lead up to Deepavali, some migrant workers in Singapore enjoyed free bus rides and care packs, thanks to the efforts of a local charity and members of the public.<\/p>\n<p>ItsRainingRaincoats said in a Facebook post on Saturday (Nov 7) that they had organised free bus services for workers travelling from Jurong Island and Tuas to Little India on Nov 1.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Within just one hour, our migrant brothers could get from their workplaces to Little India without having to wait for a bus to fill up, pay $4 per trip, or navigate multiple bus and MRT transfers,&#8221; they wrote.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With a direct bus to Little India and a return trip right to their dormitory doorstep, they could spend their day off relaxing with friends, running errands, or sending remittances.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Some of our brothers even work on Sundays until 4pm. Thanks to our 6pm free bus service, they were still able to catch a ride to Little India for a quick break and settle their errands before heading back!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The charity expressed their appreciation to Grifol Biopharma Asia-Pacific for supporting the initiative and thanked their volunteer Prabhu for making sure all the workers boarded the bus safely.<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"709\" width=\"500\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fitsrainingraincoats%2Fposts%2Fpfbid0WDiVZU82bQ8muTb2U3kp4yCpV32K6mJui6hLMdRwJ3iCkdiUR9szUtNkt4bAFtpxl&amp;show_text=true&amp;width=500\" allowfullscreen=\"true\">\u00a0<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p>On Friday, the charity also said that they distributed Deepavali care packs to migrant workers.<\/p>\n<p>While they had planned to delay the distribution of care packs due to some constraints, it all worked out in the end.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The other day, we had two worksites on our Deepavali carepack distribution list, with 120 and 205 workers respectively. Unfortunately, we didn&#8217;t have enough time to go around. We were considering holding these two sites over for our post-event distributions at the end of the month,&#8221; IRR wrote in a Facebook post.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Then, just an hour later, Angel&#8217;s Sweets Kitchen reached out to say they had a donation of 325 packets of sweets!<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The interesting thing? The shortage was something only our Deepavali drive planning team knew about. And here we were, receiving exactly 325 packets, just enough for both worksites!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The charity thanked the home-based business, which specialises in vegetarian food and Punjabi snacks, for delivering the sweets to the workers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sometimes the timing of these little acts of kindness really leaves us smiling.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"772\" width=\"500\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fitsrainingraincoats%2Fposts%2Fpfbid022AGN6rXGkr6bkFtJKqQxYwGF2DRTvtgANnyG1SqBG3BJUPm8DHMdGBpFk15BDdLbl&amp;show_text=true&amp;width=500\" allowfullscreen=\"true\">\u00a0<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"dx-token\" data-dx-entity=\"748449\">[[nid:748449]]<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.asiaone.com\/singapore\/mailto:yeo.shuhui@asiaone.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">yeo.shuhui@asiaone.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.asiaone.com\/singapore\/happy-deepavali-migrant-workers-itsrainingraincoats\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the lead up to Deepavali, some migrant workers in Singapore enjoyed free bus rides and care packs, thanks to the efforts of a local&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":98258,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2611],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-headlines","wpcat-2611-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=98257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/98258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=98257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=98257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=98257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}