Success Stories

A disabled student, Ervina Tang Sze Cheen, did her school proud when she received recognition as the 2017 STPM spastic candidate with the best results from the Education Ministry.

Two visually-impaired men proved that being disabled should not hinder a person from achieving their goals. Wong Hung Fai and Faiq Adnan, who became professional swimmers despite suffering from visual impairment, shared their experiences and struggles with participants during a drowning prevention campaign organised by the Malaysian Crime Prevention Foundation (MCPF) at Taman Tasik Ayer Keroh.

“Selagi mampu bergerak, saya akan mengerahkan kudrat badan yang cacat ini untuk mencari rezeki sendiri,” kata orang kurang upaya (OKU) Muhammad Helmi Firdaus Abdul Halid. Pemuda berusia 21 tahun itu mengidap penyakit kepala besar atau dikenali sebagai Hydrocephalus sejak lahir, menyebabkan kedua-dua kakinya lumpuh dan terpaksa bergerak dengan bantuan kerusi roda.

ASK not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country, John F. Kennedy famously said. For 20-year-old Celine Lean Yew Lin, the quote is a meaningful one. At the tender age of four, she was diagnosed with acute promyelocytic leukemia, consequently resulting in her visual impairment.

In 2016, Malaysian Paralympians won the first golds for our country at the 2016 Summer Paralympics held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. That year marked a proud moment as they returned home bearing 3 gold and 1 bronze from the international sporting event.

Kelihatan seperti kafe biasa yang menyajikan hidangan sarapan, Autism Cafe Project sebenarnya lahir daripada inspirasi murni dan wujud dengan sebuah harapan yang besar buat kanak-kanak yang mengalami autisme.

Tempahan kuih bakul dan kuih bulan keluaran gadis kurang upaya (OKU) sempena Tahun Baru Cina meningkat lima kali ganda berbanding 2017. Sebanyak 240,000 kuih bakul dan 50,000 kuih bulan yang dihasil dari kilang Haziqah Nurul Huda Harun ditempah sejak awal tahun, lapor Harian Metro.

Hao Panpan, a paralyzed man who shares his unyielding spirit through live streaming, married a woman whom he fell in love with through the live streaming platform, China Youth Daily reported.

Kecacatan anggota badan tidak menghalang seorang mahasiswa orang kurang upaya (OKU) Universiti Islam Antarabangsa Malaysia (UIAM), Azrulkhan Hasrullah Matsah, 26, untuk berada di puncak Gunung Datuk, Rembau setinggi 884 meter, kelmarin.

If ever there was a typical path for launching a thriving business, Issam Bajalia–who owns Salon U, a premier Aveda Lifestyle salon–didn’t take it. His path began with rolling silverware at Olive Garden and ends with the successful salon he owns today. If you ask Bajalia, however, the story goes back much further than that. It really starts, he says, when he woke up one day with a fraction of his vision.