Each day, Ms Dayang Noor snaps off up to 3kg of bean sprouts to earn RM10 (S$3). It is painstaking work for a 62-year-old who suffers from diabetes and has had one toe amputated due to the illness. But no hardship is too severe for her to endure for the sake of...
Ms Dayang has been caring for nine grandchildren single-handedly over the past year after her son was jailed for a drug offence.It is painstaking work for a 62-year-old who suffers from diabetes and has had one toe amputated due to the illness.The widow has been caring for nine grandchildren single-handedly over the past year after her son was jailed for a drug offence.
Recounting how the children came to live with her, Ms Dayang said she received a call from the eldest grandson informing her that his mother had left the family following his father’s imprisonment.Man shot dead at JB restaurant while having lunch with friends “I rushed to Johor by bus soon after I got the call,” she said when met at her cramped two-room rented house in Johor, which she shares with her grandchildren.Ms Dayang, who is a mother of 13 from Sabah, used to work as a sweeper. These days, she earns a living by cleaning bean sprouts.“I’m grateful to have a kind landlord who gives me extra time to pay up as he knows my predicament,” she said.
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