This week, StarEducation's series on primary education concludes with a look at the orang asli’s dilemma in sending children to school on unreliable transportation, an empty stomach and for a syllabus that holds little relevance to them. HARIATI AZIZAN reports.
WE want them to have a better life than what we have, so of course, we want our children to go to school,” says the young Batin Aman Lojong, the orang asli village head, earnestly.
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