Bridget Tan

Bridget Lew Tan (Chinese: 陈得心; pinyin: Chén Déxīn;[1] 29 September 1948[2] – 18 April 2022) was a Singaporean migrant workers' rights advocate and the founder of the Humanitarian Organization for Migration Economics (HOME).

After retiring from a career in the private sector, Tan began volunteering with the Archdiocesan Commission for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant People (ACMI), which she chaired.

She left ACMI after it declined to support some of Tan's initiatives, and in 2004 she founded HOME, which provides services for and advocates on behalf of migrant workers.

That same year she founded a sister organization in Indonesia, Yayasan Dunia Viva Wanita (Indonesian for World Foundation For Women).

Since its founding, the organization has expanded its focus, and now also works to support victims of the sex trade and to combat human trafficking.

[12][13] HOME's website lists Yayasan Dunia Viva Wanita as its "cross border partner",[14] and the organizations collaborated in 2012 on a survey of sex workers in Batam.

[8] After suffering the stroke, Tan relocated to the Yayasan Dunia Viva Wanita house in Batam; she continued to direct the charitable organizations she was involved in.