Stateless 9-year-old girl needs help for cancer treatment

Siti Nabila's cancer treatments will span over two years with long-term follow-up care, so her adoptive parents will face escalating hospital bills. Photo: Noorkamariah Mohamad

Nine years ago, Malaysian couple Junaidah Jamuni, 38, and her husband Nurul Azuar Johari, 33, from Kuching, Sarawak, decided to adopt a stateless child and give her a home as her parents who were undocumented Indonesian migrants didn’t have the means to raise her.

But the kind couple were left in dire straits when the child’s birth parents ran away before the adoption process was completed.