Given the extensive help he’s provided migrant workers in Singapore over the years, it was surprising to hear Reverend Samuel Gift Stephen say that there was a point of time in his life when he actually wanted nothing at all to do with such members of Singapore society.
It wasn’t that Rev Samuel disliked migrant workers, or feared them. On the contrary, having grown up in an environment where he interacted with migrant workers on an almost daily basis, Rev Samuel was familiar with their beliefs and behaviours.
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