Inclue has a place for the children of the homeless workers who showed up for work at the workshop sessions.
Fariq Somasundram looks forward to Thursdays. By 7am, he’d be in a long queue outside a transit centre for the homeless in Kuala Lumpur, eager to grab some work. His task could be to stick labels on packages or make beaded jewellery.
The 30-year-old mechanical engineering diploma holder does not mind how menial or mundane the tasks assigned to him are. Working at the Pusat Khidmat Gelandangan and collecting his pay packet at the end of the day remind him of his life before he became homeless a year ago.
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