My parents were not rich, but we had enough to go around. My dad was a businessman, and my mom taught at a primary school. In the absence...

My father refused to work because he believed if we had too much money, we would be damned, so my mother and I would cut dry wood to sell...

My childhood was a long-term nightmare that I couldn’t wake up from. My father was very violent and abusive, so I never had a chance...

People around me see a beautiful picture of my life. They see a young entrepreneur who owns a nice flat and went to Dubai for her...

The car was gone, and all our things were destroyed. I stood in front of our rented house and panicked wondering what to do. We didn’t...

I weighed a little over two pounds. I was so premature that no one thought I would survive, but God had different plans for me...

Despite being the nation’s capital, the city was very poor. I saw beggars in the streets every day, and my own neighbors could barely...

My mother was still a student when she had me and literally had to take her final exams with me crying my lungs out next to her...

I was the eldest child in my family. We went on a long sea voyage to Malaya, a then-British colony in Southeast Asia. My parents settled...

I learned what it meant to survive at a young age. I waited patiently for my father to escape death, and from then on, I was determined...

The north is prosperous while most of the south is impoverished. We lived on the southern side of the province. My family was immensely...

After her husband, my grandfather, left her a few years into their young marriage, she decided to raise their two daughters, my mother...

Even though my parents got divorced when I was in kindergarten, they ended on such good terms that there was not too much struggle for me...