DBS/POSB publicizes that it’ll subsidise 5 million hawker meals over the following 12 months, as inflationary pressures proceed to drive up meals costs.
From 10 February 2023 to 19 January 2024, it is possible for you to to take pleasure in a subsidy of SGD 3 while you use DBS PayLah! to scan and pay to your meals – capped on the first 100,000 customers each Friday at any of the 11,600 SGQR-enabled hawker stalls island-wide.
Minister within the Prime Minister’s Workplace, Second Minister for Finance and Nationwide Improvement, Indranee Rajah, joined DBS employees and SG Digital Workplace digital ambassadors at Tiong Bahru Market this morning to lift consciousness of the ‘DBS 5 Million Hawker Meals’ initiative. They met hawkers who’ve adopted digital funds and interacted with contributors at a pop-up digital literacy workshop onsite.
Sharing within the Lunar New 12 months festivities, additionally they distributed crimson packets and oranges to the contributors.
The ‘DBS 5 Million Hawker Meals’ initiative is the most recent in a collection of initiatives by DBS/POSB to assist the neighborhood’s wants.
Final November, the DBS Basis introduced that it’ll contribute SGD 500,000, which totals as much as SGD 1 million with the federal government’s dollar-for-dollar matching, to the DfL fund to assist digital inclusion tasks and step up its volunteer participation to drive digital literacy coaching. The trouble goals to achieve out to some 100,000 Singaporeans by finish 2024, together with senior residents, youths, hawkers, and particular wants people.
The financial institution additionally launched the DBS Undertake-A-Hawker Centre initiative in 2021 with the purpose of safeguarding hawkers’ livelihoods amid the pandemic. The financial institution labored with IMDA to rally neighborhood companions and varied grassroot leaders to:
- assist maintain these companies by organising group buys
- boosting discoverability through social media and different platforms together with DBS PayLah!
- equipping hawkers with the instruments and know-how to digitalise their enterprise
Up to now, stallholders from ten hawker centres island-wide have benefited from this initiative.
