Stuck in longhouse slums


Some of the vacated units have been demolished to prevent vagrants and drug addicts from moving in.

A TEN-YEAR-OLD is seen playing alone on a hammock fashioned from her mother’s burgundy saree outside her dilapidated home in the Jinjang Utara Longhouse in Kepong, Kuala Lumpur.

Mithyanandini G flashes a brilliant smile at us as she continues to play on her “swing”. 

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