Weaving dreams of a better life in a faraway land SYED DANIAL SYED AZAHAR/THESUN
FOR Muang I, a Myanmar refugee who now lives in Malaysia, sweet dreams are made of simple things like woven handbags, purses and towels. It is items such as these that have given her and fellow members of the Chin community a lifeline while they await their fate.
Muang, 24, is coordinator of the Mang Tha Centre in Kuala Lumpur, a community-based project organised exclusively by and for
Chin women.
their homeland to avoid war and human
rights abuses.
Muang fled Myanmar with her parents when she was only 13. “We only had the clothes on our backs,” she told