Migrants share their stories


Patchwork of tales: A visitor admiring the Stay Home Quilt on display at the Tzu Chi Humanistic Youth Centre. — The Straits Times/ANN

Since March this year, Syakirin Ahmad has spent only 15 days with his wife and two daughters in Johor Baru.

The 27-year-old Malaysian, who has been working in Singapore as a courier for the last three years, used to commute across the Causeway daily but now has to live apart from his family due to the Covid-19 pandemic and border restrictions.

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