Sabah’s maritime nomads try to keep their heads above water during the pandemic. FMTNews Covid19 NGO MCO DHRRA
Bajau Laut children play on a bridge at a village in Sabah. Many live on houseboats and isolated stilt villages along Sabah’s remote shores.
Many still live on houseboats, while still more live in isolated stilt villages along remote Sabah shores, away from the centres of population, usually quite forgotten by the nation.And now, caught in the storm surge of Covid-19, these proudly independent maritime navigators find themselves cut off from their normal livelihoods, and with little access to the vital help they need to grapple with the new scourge and the debilitating effects of measures taken to bring it under control.
Their problems are multiplied by being officially denied access to Malaysian healthcare, jobs and schools. Mukmin’s school is planning at-home sessions, and vocational classes for limited numbers of students at their centre in Semporna, Sabah. It remains to be seen if and how these will go ahead. “Some have been to doctors but others are too scared to leave their houses to check on their health,” said Mukmin.
She is concerned they are not entitled to any help even though many were actually impoverished before the movement restrictions began.
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