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 get pleasure from a subsidy of SGD 3 once you use DBS PayLah! to scan and pay on 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 Office, Second Minister for Finance and National Development, Indranee Rajah, joined DBS employees and SG Digital Office digital ambassadors at Tiong Bahru Market this morning to boost consciousness of the ‘DBS 5 Million Hawker Meals’ initiative. They met hawkers who’ve adopted digital funds and interacted with individuals at a pop-up digital literacy workshop onsite.
Sharing within the Lunar New Year festivities, additionally they distributed pink packets and oranges to the individuals.
The ‘DBS 5 Million Hawker Meals’ initiative is the most recent in a collection of initiatives by DBS/POSB to assist the group’s wants.
Last November, the DBS Foundation 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 initiatives and step up its volunteer participation to drive digital literacy coaching. The effort goals to succeed in 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 Adopt-A-Hawker Centre initiative in 2021 with the purpose of safeguarding hawkers’ livelihoods amid the pandemic. The financial institution labored with IMDA to rally group companions and numerous 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
To date, stallholders from ten hawker centres island-wide have benefited from this initiative.