Up to 40% of Orang Asli children affected by school-bus issues
Many Orang Asli families live in the interior and their children have to wake up before dawn to get to school. – The Malaysian Insight file pic, August 29, 2019.
SCHOOL-BUS disruptions are not confined to Pahang but affect up to 40% of Orang Asli children in Peninsular Malaysia, most of them secondary school pupils. These pupils depend on the government-funded service as their settlements are almost an hour’s drive from their schools, said lawmakers and groups working with the community.
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