Browsing articles from "January, 2011"
Entrepreneurship, THE Social Solution for Malaysian Women Inmates
Good fortune came my way today as part of a group of women entrepreneurs heading their way to Kajang Women Prison. It was a first visit for all 8 of us, including Jimmy the ‘board game’ guy. We couldn’t contain our excitement as we sat together in the plain white Toyota Hiace 10-seater, chattering away imagining curled barbed wire and scenes from ’24′. The barbed wire I saw alright but no unbecoming scene… In fact we were politely ushered to a nice auditorium, still no criminal faces at sight. Instead, Malay women, almost 100 odd Malay women in pretty scarves and colourful baju kurung filled up the seats.