Singtel’s Dash and Ezra are collaborating to enable more migrant workers in Singapore to stay connected to their families back home through international airtime top ups with the Dash app.
Dash is the first Asia-Pacific partner of Ezra, a global aid initiative launched in June that aims to tap on the strength of its partnerships with organisations including mobile operators, financial institutions and NGOs to help vulnerable migrant communities through digital and financial inclusion.
Migrant workers in Singapore, many of whom are in the construction and process industries and are domestic workers, have been the hardest hit by the COVID-19 pandemic. It is on this premise that Dash and Ezra have launched a campaign with the aim of making digital tools and services more affordable and accessible to migrant workers and to accelerate digital adoption.
The campaign, running from 22 July to 23 August, offers credit of up to two times the value of top-ups to migrant workers who use Dash to purchase international mobile airtime for their friends and family back home. The international mobile airtime is enabled by Ezra's partner DT One, an extensive global network for mobile top-ups, and the international mobile top-ups are available to multiple destinations including Bangladesh, China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam.
Gilbert Chuah, Head of Mobile Financial Services, Singtel's International Group
Through this initiative, we hope to help ease the economic burden of COVID-19 and bring some relief to Dash’s large base of migrant workers by helping them stay connected to their family overseas with the additional airtime.
