T-shirt campaign to help migrant workers

Buy a T-shirt and the proceeds will go towards giving a foreign worker an English textbook.

Social enterprise SDI Academy has launched a range of T-shirts as part of a social campaign to promote the inclusion of migrant workers in society. With the number of workplace injuries on the rise, the group hopes to raise the level of English proficiency among migrant workers so that they will stay out of harm's way. Most safety manuals and instructions are in English.

The T-shirts can be bought at https://give.asia/movement/im_no_stranger or you can head down to the launch event on July 16 if you wish to give the textbooks to the foreign workers personally.

Going to extremes to tackle violence

Last month, 11 women from Singapore-based non-profit Women on a Mission embarked on a three-day stand-up paddle-board trip down the Mo Chhu and Po Chhu rivers in Bhutan.

The group - which travels to extreme environments to raise awareness of violence against women - raised $20,000 for Renew, a battered women's charity founded by the Queen Mother of Bhutan.

Its next event will be a photography exhibition, featuring last November's trek across the Lut Desert in Iran, on June 8. The event supports advocacy group Aware's Sexual Assault Care Centre.