Homeless in Malaysia: In dire need of review

Where's home? The Welfare Department conducts exercises dubbed Operasi Gelandangan (which it calls 'rescues') to help get homeless people off the street. For the homeless, these exercises are not rescues but raids. They fear being detained against their will, even if they are eventually placed in welfare homes. - FAIHAN GHANI/The Star

The view that homeless people are criminals or unfit for work needs to be corrected.

David is in his 60s and has been living on the streets of Kuala Lumpur for over 10 years.