Student breadwinner:<\/strong> Rajagopalu (left) taking a look at Ambiga\u2019s SPM\u2019s revision books. With them are her father Ramasamy (right), mother Tamil Shelvy and brother Suriya. Looking on is Tampin MIC division chairman R. Rajendran (second from left).<\/span><\/div>\nHe mother V. Tamil Shelvy, 42, became asthmatic in August last year and was unable to work. Her father P. Ramasamy, 48, was a lorry driver before joining his wife to tap rubber. He also had to stop working because he is a diabetic and has high blood pressure and heart problem.<\/p>\n
She has a brother, Suriya, 10, who is studying in a Tamil primary school.<\/p>\n
Ambiga\u2019s plight was brought to the attention of Negri Sembilan MIC chairman Datuk T. Rajagopalu who visited the family in Taman Air Kuning Selatan, near Gemen-cheh about 75km from here.<\/p>\n
Tamil Shelvy said her daughter\u2019s rubber tapping provides the only source of income for the family in addition to the RM200 welfare assistance for the children\u2019s schooling.<\/p>\n
She said that her family members had refused to help her out and instead, had asked her to get her daughter married off.<\/p>\n
\u201cI want my daughter to study hard and be somebody in life.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have confidence in her,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Ambiga, who is currently sitting for her Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia<\/em> (SPM) examinations, said she had to work for the sake of her family.<\/p>\n\u201cI am confident of passing and hope to secure a place to attend teacher training course as I want to become a teacher,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Rajagopalu said he would assist the children with their education.<\/p>\n
He had also made arrangement for Ambiga\u2019s parents to receive treatment at Seremban Hospital and for a contractor to do some repairs to their house.<\/p>\n
Those who want to contribute can send cheques to the Maragatha Ambiga Fund, c\/o Negeri Sembilan MIC, Jalan Tuanku Antah, 70000 Seremban or contact Rajagopalu at 019-6612337 or 06-7622609 or Tampin MIC division chairman R. Rajendran 013-3532526.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This is among the most heartbreaking news I read this year.\u00a0 I really don’t know what to say! But I know what to do: Those who want to contribute can send cheques to the Maragatha Ambiga Fund, c\/o Negeri Sembilan MIC, Jalan Tuanku Antah, 70000 Seremban or contact Rajagopalu at 019-6612337 or 06-7622609 or Tampin […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[19,201,154,90],"class_list":["post-2788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indian","tag-education","tag-negeri-sembilan","tag-poverty","tag-role-model"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2788"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2790,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2788\/revisions\/2790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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