Last resort: Velaiamma started begging as a means to scrape together funds for her grandchildren's college education.
KUALA LUMPUR: Every day, a 75-year-old grandmother takes a bus to a temple here and turns beggar – to put her two grandchildren through college.
Velaiamma Somayya, 75, said she had been begging in front of a temple here for the past 15 years due to her poor condition.
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