Teaching Students How to Take Heart – and How to Have Heart

By Serina Rahman

September 2016 FEATURE
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Rusaslina Idrus (far right) and her team of volunteers.
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“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...

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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.


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