WAO ANNUAL REPORT 2009 - Women's Aid Organisation

experience of foreign spouses in Malaysia especially to improve advocacy work on status of
foreign spouses. In April 2009 the group sat and devised a Foreign Spouses survey that was
distributed widely in order to collect the responses of other foreign spouses on their
experiences faced in Malaysia.
Wanita MCA takes on the issue of foreign spouses rights
A good opportunity opened up when the MCA Wanita held a one day forum on Foreign Spouses
in Malaysia and the FSSG presented a detailed paper on the issues, challenges and
recommendations. WAO helped with this presentation.
The FSSG has now taken off on her own with Bina Ramanand (a foreign spouse) leading it and
reporting to MWG when there is an activity or meeting with the government. WAO facilitates
some of these meetings but does not attend them leaving it to the group to advocate for
themselves.
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