by SUKA Society | Oct 4, 2017 | Stories
Hello, my name is Phuong and I am 25 old. I was asked by my grandmother to work in Malaysia as a masseuse. I agreed as the job promised better future prospects and I also needed the job to help my family pay the bills. Once I arrived in Malaysia, things began to seem...
by SUKA Society | Oct 4, 2017 | Stories
Hi! My name is Izam and I am thirteen years old. I am the eldest out of four siblings. Since young, I love making new friends and getting involved in the activities carried out in the Kampung Sungai Bil community school. The extra classes have helped me with the...
by SUKA Society | Oct 4, 2017 | Stories
Hi, my name is Reza and I come from a village in Afghanistan. I came to Malaysia on my own when I was 16 years old. It will be about two years that I have been in Malaysia. I had to leave my home for reasons I cannot say. It just wasn’t safe for me there. When I first...
by SUKA Society | May 2, 2017 | AlternativetoDetention, Media, News, Stories
It is extremely encouraging to see young people from our case management program now doing well after being resettled in United States. Being an unaccompanied and separated minor, it was very tough for him here in Malaysia. He was in our program for close to two years...
by SUKA Society | Jan 13, 2017 | empowered2teach, Stories, Volunteering
SUKA Society partners with Fulbright English Teaching Assistant’s who are teaching in the nearby vicinity of our Orang Asli pre-schools. They provide English lessons for our Orang Asli teachers so that they can improve and provide better lessons for the...
by SUKA Society | Jul 28, 2015 | Stories
We returned home to find my grandmother cut into pieces. My father told me that if we had left the house five minutes later, we would have all been murdered, just like my grandmother. All the houses in our community were also burned down during the massacre. Because...
