RAY OF HOPE..Shannen Lovenia Kamal Abdullah receiving the cash aid from Kiat Melaka MP Khoo Post Tiong after a Ramadan gathering at Shah Beach Resort in Melaka.
MELAKA: SPM high-achiever Shannen Lovenia Kamal Abdullah, who found it hard to pay for her enrolment fee into a local university, got a helping hand from a man who went through the same thing three decades earlier.
The 17-year-old got an offer to pursue a foundation programme at Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM), but her fisherman father was unable to raise RM655 to pay the entrance fee.
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