My reflection on my recent project proposal regards to the treatment of migrant workers in construction industry in Singapore.
Challenges
The challenges I faced was to put in correct materials, although we can easily get tons of information regarding the treatment of migrant workers, we need to prioritize them, select the useful information through the sea of news. Another is the street interview, I'm usually a silent man, it's challenged for me to do the street interview.
Triumphs
We successfully interviewed 1 Bangladeshi, 2 Chinese, 2 India construction workers, and we retrieved useful information throughout the simple conversation. We distribute work among the team, and everyone is contributing, and we have a integrated proposal, that's a great success.
Learning Points
I understood more about about migrant workers' current status, they are indeed mostly underpaid. And I learned how to do street interview, and how to organize information, and write the proposal.
Possible Areas for Improvement
We don't' have a large group of interview, so the sample amount is small, and we didn't try to contact MOM Singapore to get a more deep understanding of their concern and their difficulties.
It's a good opportunities for us to do this project, we learnt a lot throughout the project, and I'm becoming more appreciated for those migrant workers who indeed contribute a lot to the whole society, we will not have the air-conditioned office building without their heavy work before.
I'm so glad that your experience in doing this project gave you these insights Tony. I hope your experience working with your group mates was equally positive.
回复删除Hello Tony
回复删除It has been a pleasure to be in a team with you. You have thought me to view matters in a different angle. Additionally, your use of hand gestures are amazing that migrant workers seem to understand you pretty well, almost like a "universal language". Although, the pool of migrant workers we had researched is small, nonetheless I've seen your effort to come in the hot sweltering weather to interview those workers! Good effort as a teammate as well as your reflection. Kudos to you. :)
Best regards
Nigel Cheok