S’wak stateless kids get school, health access

Changing lives: Abang Johari (in grey suit) and Fatimah Abdullah (far left) posing with recipients of the documents. — ZULAZHAR SHEBLEE/The Star

KUCHING: Amar Akil Darwisy was seven days old when his mother handed him over to Awang Musa Awang Dillah and his wife Mordiah Abon, saying she could not raise him.

“We didn’t know who she was. We were on our way home after shopping when she flagged down our car and passed the baby to us. She just said she wanted to give him to us because she could not afford to raise him,” Mordiah, 43, recalled.