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Brighter Days

ver a decade ago, Soraya Alkaff returned to Johor from Paris, where she had lived for many years. Before that, she spent over a decade raising her family between Indonesia and Singapore after her husband accepted a job opportunity in Jakarta. A devoted mother with keen business instincts and a knack for noticing those who are overlooked, Soraya encountered a group of Rohingya refugees after joining a volunteer movement helping women and girls in Johor. Heavily involved in the funding of the Rohingya Learning Centre there, she eventually opened a refugee school in Kulai. She

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