All cash collected would be channeled through non-governmental organisation Migrant Workers' Centre (MWC), which is in touch with Sakthivel's family in India.
MWC executive director Bernard Menon said the foreign workers' support NGO has received some half a dozen similar donation offers.
Media artist Suresh Vanaz has raised SGD 1,800 since Monday through social media appeals. Vanaz, 34, said he plans to chip in another SGD 1,200 from his own pocket for the family.
Two Singaporean students at University of Liverpool in Britain have set up a 24-day crowd-funding campaign on online platform Indiegogo, among others.
Singaporeans Tai Wong and Kyle Sim have set a target to raise SGD 50,000 for Sakthivel family. “We're hoping that it conveys the message that we're here to help and we're all people of the same world, there is no them and us,” said Wong.
“Our first reaction to news of the riot was disbelief, then outrage, but we took a step back and asked ourselves why it had happened, and we stopped looking for who to blame, and tried to see how we could help,” Wong was quoted by The Straits Times.
