Noble mission by Popoc aims to counsel and rehabilitate wayward youths

Paying it forward: Ganesan (left) and Muhammad Machap were given a second chance at life and now want to repay it.

PETALING JAYA: More than a year ago, a group of former detainees of preventive laws set out on a noble mission by forming an organisation to counsel and rehabilitate delinquent youths involved in undesirable activities like gangsterism.

Despite scepticism and objections from certain quarters, the reformed men, all former inmates of the now repealed Public Order and Prevention of Crime Ordinance, commonly known as the Emergency Ordinance (EO), were resolute in their mission and persevered.