Master’s Tea with Ms Bridget Tan

Tembusu College Master’s Tea

Ms. Bridget Tan

3pm, Tuesday

26th March 2013

Master’s Common Lounge,

Level 3, Residential Block

Refreshments will be served.

Only 30 seats available!

Please sign up at tembusu.nus.edu.sg

Bridget Tan is Founder ans CEO of the Humanitarian Organization for Migration Economic (HOME).

As Founder and CEO of HOME she has in the last 8 years, served more then 50,000 migrant men and women from developing countries in the region. These include domestic workers, service and retail workers, construction, engineering and factory workers, foreign spouses, sex workers, asylum seekers and so on. HOME provides helpdesks and shelters for men and women for victims of human trafficking and labour exploitation. HOME also engages the women migrant domestic worker community in skills development programmes and education on HIV and AIDS.

Among her many accomplishments and recognition, she was awarded TIP Hero 2011 by the US Secretary ofStatr, Mrs. Hilary Clinton, the Banaag Award 2004 by President Gloria Macapgal Arroyo in 2004, the 1000 Peace Women Across the Globe, Nobel Peace Award Nominee in 2009 and the Readers’ digest Asian Honourable Mention 2011. She has also been recognized as one among 10 most inspiring woman by the UNIFEM National Committee in Singapore in2010. In 2012, she won Mediacorp’s Woman of the Year Award.