Teaching Students How to Take Heart – and How to Have Heart
By Serina Rahman
September 2016 FEATURE
“Mari Kita Membaca” and “Kedai Jalanan” are expressions of a new Malaysia – one that can be depressing because of the illiteracy and the poverty it signifies, but also one that boasts people like Rusaslina, who knows that a good deed is its own reward.I first met Rusaslina Idrus (I call her Lin) in 2011. I was living in a kampong not far from the Second Link Bridge to Singapore and she was a Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute...
Serina Rahman
is the co-founder of Kelab Alami, a community capacitybuilding organisation in Johor, Malaysia. On regular days she is a Research Fellow at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies in NTU, Singapore.
