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Children

Malaysian NGO aims to break poverty cycle through transformative education

By MING TEOH
Photos By LOW BOON TAT
Rev Elisha Satvinder and Petrina Shee sitting with the primary school students. Photos: The Star/Low Boon Tat

It all started 25 years ago when Petrina Shee and her friends chanced upon two children carrying buckets of water in Sentul, Kuala Lumpur.

When asked, the kids said they had no water at home.

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family , lifestyle , children , youth , transformative education , intervention programmes , Dignity for Children Foundation , poverty

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