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19/09: One school uniform for a whole week
Category: General
Posted by: Raja Petra
Borneo PostPenan student lives with bare necessities at boarding school; some stop studying due to ‘hurtful’ teasing
KUCHING: Every school day, 13-year-old Wendy Musa wears the same uniform which she washes once a week.
Even if it smells, she still has to wear it till Friday afternoon before she can do her laundry.
This is because she has no spare and her single mother cannot afford to buy her another.
This Penan girl from Ba’ Abang, Ulu Baram, Miri Division, aspires to be a teacher but is uncertain of her future because she doesn’t know how long her mother can continue supporting her in secondary school.
This teenager is the eldest in a family of six siblings and her mother has no other source of income to support the family except self-sufficient farming.
“My mum is jobless and had to ask my uncle for some money to meet my schooling needs early this year.
“My uncle is not working too, so I don’t know how he manages,” she told The Borneo Post recently near her school – SMK Temenggong Datuk Lawai Jau – in Long San, Ulu Baram. Read the rest of this entry »
http://www.malaysia-today.net/blog2006/newsncom.php?itemid=8351
19/09: One school uniform for a whole week
Category: General
Posted by: Raja Petra
Borneo Post
Penan student lives with bare necessities at boarding school; some stop studying due to ‘hurtful’ teasing
KUCHING: Every school day, 13-year-old Wendy Musa wears the same uniform which she washes once a week.
Even if it smells, she still has to wear it till Friday afternoon before she can do her laundry.
This is because she has no spare and her single mother cannot afford to buy her another.
This Penan girl from Ba’ Abang, Ulu Baram, Miri Division, aspires to be a teacher but is uncertain of her future because she doesn’t know how long her mother can continue supporting her in secondary school.
This teenager is the eldest in a family of six siblings and her mother has no other source of income to support the family except self-sufficient farming.
“My mum is jobless and had to ask my uncle for some money to meet my schooling needs early this year.
“My uncle is not working too, so I don’t know how he manages,” she told The Borneo Post recently near her school – SMK Temenggong Datuk Lawai Jau – in Long San, Ulu Baram.
Long San, a Kenyah village is about 240km from Miri and accessible through logging tracks by four-wheel drive vehicles over a six-hour journey. Read the rest of this entry »
Talasemia ialah sejenis penyakit anemia yang juga penyakit keturunan. Walaupun biasa terdapat di kawasan Mediteranean, penyakit ini juga didapati di
India dan Asia Tenggara. Talasemia boleh diwarisi oleh anak jika kedua-dua ibu dan bapa mempunyai gen yang terlibat. Walaupun kedua-dua ibu bapa tidak menghidap anemia, kebarangkalian anak menghidapinya ialah satu per empat. Anak yang menghidap talasemia tidak boleh menghasilkan hemoglobin yang normal, iaitu bahan yang menghasilkan warna merah dalam sel darah merah dan merupakan bahan pembawa oksigen ke seluruh tubuh badan. Masalah ini ketara semasa anak menjangkau tiga bulan.
Pada masa ini, tanda-tanda penyakit anemia mula muncul seperti kelesuan, sesak nafas dan pucat. Lama-kelamaan anak akan semakin kekurangan tenaga dan mengalami kesukaran menyusu. Bahagian abdomennya juga akan menjadi besar disebabkan pembesaran limpa dan hati.
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