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Empowering migrant workers through education
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Mr Sazzad Hossain started SDI Academy in 2013. The social enterprise offers courses such as English, computer literacy and financial planning to migrant workers. Last year, SDI Academy created an app so that classes could continue during the pandemic.
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Ivan Kwee
When he was 18, Mr Sazzad Hossain started hanging out with migrant workers, spending his weekends teaching them English as he understood the challenges they faced due to the language barrier.
Having moved to Singapore with his family from Bangladesh at the age of 11, Mr Sazzad, now 27, had to drop two grades in school because he could not speak English.
