Woman who raised adoptive daughter as Muslim receives Maulidur Rasul award

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PETALING JAYA: A retired Chinese kindergarten teacher, who became known for raising an abandoned Muslim child according to the Islamic faith, has received the 2022 Perdana Maulidur Rasul award.

The award is usually awarded to Muslims for their contribution to Malaysia, but Chee Hoi Lan was one of six candidates to receive it and was dubbed the “Ibu Sejati-Keluarga Malaysia” icon.

Chee, 83 single-handedly raised her adoptive daughter Rohana Abdullah as a Muslim after she was abandoned at two months old by her Indonesian mother, a domestic worker at the kindergarten where Chee worked.

In bringing up Rohana, she realised that the problem of race and religion would crop up and she worked hard to ensure that Rohana would never lack in terms of being raised as a Muslim.

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