IT was exactly 100 years ago that a woman named Emma Ferris Shellabear started the first all girls' school in Malacca.
A Methodist missionary who was interested in doing something for girls' education, Shellabear walked the streets of Malacca, knocking on every door to ask for help in realising her dream but to no avail.
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