KUCHING, July 24 As a mother, Christina Lendai could not hold back her emotions when her one-year-old son Philip Lai Jung Pah finally received his Malaysian citizenship.
KUCHING (July 24): As a mother, Christina Lendai could not hold back her emotions when her one-year-old son Philip Lai Jung Pah finally received his Malaysian citizenship today.
Speaking to The Borneo Post, she said she felt relieved now that she could think about the future of her son.
“It ha
Siti Nabila s cancer treatments will span over two years with long-term follow-up care, so her adoptive parents will face escalating hospital bills. Photo: Noorkamariah Mohamad
Nine years ago, Malaysian couple Junaidah Jamuni, 38, and her husband Nurul Azuar Johari, 33, from Kuching, Sarawak, decided to adopt a stateless child and give her a home as her parents who were undocumented Indonesian migrants didn’t have the means to raise her.
But the kind couple were left in dire straits when the child’s birth parents ran away before the adoption process was completed.
Today, their adoptive daughter Siti Nabila is nine. Last year, she was diagnosed with B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia, a type of cancer that affects the white blood cells in the bone marrow, making her more prone to infections.