Satu penyelidikan yang dilaksanakan awal tahun ini yang fokus kepada Orang Asli di Terengganu mendapati bahawa kesemuanya memperoleh kurang daripada RM880 setiap bulan
Meet Teacher Zahir, a 30 year old teacher who have dedicated seven years of his life educating rural students in SK Nanga Entalau in the deep interiors of Sarawak.
Meet Veveonah Mosibin. She unexpectedly rose to fame after climbing a tree to get a good internet connection to sit for her online exams. This driven 18-year-old student from Kampung Sapatalang, Pitas, Sabah captured the whole tree climbing episode on video and it became viral.
The aboriginal people of Malaysia, also known as Orang Asli’s makeup 178,197 of our population. As the first people group of the land, they should be far more progressive, if not, economically on par with the rest of Malaysian society. However, in 2000, they were identified as a vulnerable population with 83% of the population still living in poverty.
Child marriage is an occurrence that happens throughout Malaysia. It affects all races, ethnicity, religion, and gender throughout various communities in the nation.
Child marriage is considered a way of giving children a chance at a better life whilst also reducing one more mouth to feed. Low-income families face the real burden of putting food on the table. As a result of that, studies have shown a higher prevalence of child marriages among low-income communities.
For a majority of girls around the world, their 18th birthday is a significant milestone of stepping into adulthood and a chapter closer to independent living. Sadly, this isn’t the case for a whopping 650 million girls worldwide who end up being married even before they turn 18 years old.
Tekanan kemiskinan mampu mempengaruhi perkembangan otak kanak-kanak sebelum kelahiran. Tempat kelahiran dan cara seseorang individu dibesarkan juga sangat signifikan. Kajian mendapati bahawa keupayaan kognitif kanak-kanak boleh dikaitkan dengan status sosio-ekonomi mereka, terutamanya mereka yang dalam keadaan sangat daif.
Saraswathy Periyasamy, 42, merupakan seorang ibu tunggal yang gigih dan sentiasa berusaha dalam memastikan keempat-empat anaknya dibesarkan dalam keadaan yang mencukupi. Beliau merupakan salah seorang penduduk flat Projek Perumahan Rakyat di pusat bandar Kuala Lumpur.
Globally, as it stands, a whopping 650 million girls have gotten married before the age of 18 years old. According to Unicef, this number increases by 12 million every year. Nearly 30% of global child marriages happen in the South Asian region.
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