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New transitional shelters provide more housing for rough sleepers in S'pore

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Ms Jessica Ong, senior social worker at AMKFSC Community Services, speaking to Mr Wong, who has been staying since January at a new transitional shelter run by the charity.

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SINGAPORE - When Mr Wong, 48, lost his cleaning job after Covid-19 hit Singapore last year, he also lost the roof over his head.
The bachelor, who is estranged from his family, had been sleeping on a makeshift bed at the coffee shop he cleaned.
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