Back home, with a little help


Going the extra mile: Hon (left) and his wife (on Hon’s left) with Sophia (middle) and her parents standing outside her home in a village located more than an hour away from Waingapu in Sumba Island in Indonesia.

SEREMBAN: Her long lost family in a remote part of Indonesia has often been on her mind but she was in the dark on how to reach out to them.

Little did Sophia know that the long road home began right here in the house of a Malaysian couple whom she works for.

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