MP pays enrolment fee for teen to pursue dream to become forensic scientist


Shannen (second from right) receiving the cash aid from Khoo.

MELAKA: The door has opened for SPM high-achiever Shannen Lovenia Kamal Abdullah to pursue her ambition to become a forensic scientist.

The 17-year-old from the Melaka Portuguese Settlement here was accepted for a foundation programme at Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) but her fisherman father could not afford to pay the RM655 enrolment fee.

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