Time spent at oyster farm a real gem for volunteers

Jewel of the sea: Volunteers (from left) Carly Malkiewicz, DeLeon and Hamilton admiring a large oyster at the farm along Sungai Merbok.

ALOR SETAR: Volunteering can be tedious sometimes but for graphic designer Syadzwan Nasruddin, his initial short stint at an oyster farm in Sungai Merbok here turned into a three-year-stay.

“I found out about the farm online and decided to check it out. It was meant to be a short voluntary stint in 2015, but I continued until 2018,” said Syadzwan, who has since moved back to Kuala Lumpur.