“I am 24 years old. I got married at the age of 18. I am 9 months pregnant and this is my second child. We will ride the motorcycle to the hospital when the time comes. It’ll take roughly 30 mins to get to the hospital in town and I ride myself there. My husband is a contractor. He’s from another Kampung. I stopped schooling at Standard 5 and I stayed at home after that. My husband also didn’t let me go to town and work. Now I take care of my kid and I go out with my friends. My mother is the one in yellow t-shirt. She’s 42! My sister doesn’t want children for now. She’s doing family planning, she got to know about it herself and through the nurse and UNFPA’.
‘Aren’t you afraid that when the time comes, you’ll have to give birth on the motorcycle on your way to the hospital?
“Nope!”
– Humans of Kuala Lumpur went with the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA Malaysia) into the jungles of Sarawak, where they were helping out underprivileged Sarawakians and orang asal in their mission to deliver a world where every pregnancy is wanted, every childbirth is safe and every young person’s potential is fulfilled.
For the next week, Humans of KL, as the biggest storytelling platform in Malaysia covering all the states as its capital, will feature the amazing stories and challenges faced by these Malaysians.
