Award winner wants equal education rights for 40,000 refugee children


  • Nation
  • Wednesday, 20 Jun 2018

PETALING JAYA: The sole Malaysian winner of the 2017 Queen's Young Leaders Award, Heidy Quah, wants some 40,000 refugee children here to have equal access to education.

"I definitely want to be more involved in policy making and legislation, as that has always be the dream of Refuge for Refugees (RFTR) when we first started it," she told reporters after handing over her membership form to DAP adviser Lim Kit Siang here on Wednesday (June 20).

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