Malaysian family on spending Ramadan in Canada for the first time

Hermawati and Azlan with their three children (from left) Rayyan, Deana and Emran have been getting a lot more family time in Calgary. Photos: Hermawati Ernie Charmadi

Up until six months ago, Hermawati Ernie Charmadi and her family were living comfortably in Kuala Lumpur. They moved to Canada, however, when she was posted to Calgary. Hermawati works for an oil and gas company.

Calgary, is a city in the province of Alberta, Canada. Its growth as a city is attributed to its oil industry so much so that it is has earned the status of the “centre of Canada’s oil industry” (according to Google) with a cosmopolitan population of 1.336 million (as of 2017).