Blind couple return to work with renewed vigour

Muthukumar and Saraswathy met while training at MAB. Saraswathy is among recipients of the food basket programme.

A PAIR of blind masseur and masseuse are excited that they are now able to return to work with the reopening of the sector under the conditional movement control order.

Saraswathy Velaiyya, 38, and S. Muthukumar, 46, have been jobless for close to a year and have overdue utility bills to settle.

They are on welfare aid and because of a lack of income for a year, the couple and some of their peers received help from the Malaysian Association for the Blind (MAB) in the form of food baskets containing rice and cooking oil, among other necessities.