Good news for Dewa Suriya
Future looks brighter as ashram offers her employment
KLANG:
Things are beginning to look up for S. Dewa Suriya who managed to return home to Malaysia on Friday after her ordeal in India.
Persatuan Kebajikan Sri Saradha Devi Illam in Rawang, where she and her son Darshan, four, are staying temporarily, has offered her employment.
“I am very thankful and it will be a good arrangement for me,” said Dewa Suriya.
However, she wants to meet her mother first to help her.
Dewa Suriya’s mother and siblings are also facing hard times without a permanent place to stay.
Kuala Lumpur Welfare Department enforcement division senior assistant direc- tor R. Kantheswary has made arrangements to meet Dewa Suriya’s mother and see how she can be helped as well.
Dewa Suriya is feeling better now that her ordeal is over.
“I am calmer and able to think about what I must do now. My main priority is my son’s welfare,” she added.
Dewa Suriya, 37, made headlines recently when a video clip of her crying, begging for help and claiming that her mother-inlaw was abusing her went viral on social media.
Her first attempt to return home early last week was thwarted by the Indian Immigration authorities after she was stopped from boarding her Malindo flight for overstaying in India for 17 days.
Both Dewa Suriya and Darshan were slapped with a Rs2,000 (RM126) fine each before they were allowed to leave.
Luckily for Dewa Suriya, Malindo provided her free air tickets and she arrived at KLIA from Trichy Airport on Friday night.
The ashram’s president, Kumaran Adakalam, said Dewa Suriya was happy at the home and was suited to work there.
“We will offer her employment as warder at the home, and I think she will do well,” he said.
Dewa Suriya, who left school after Form Three, said she is computer literate and knows basic accounting.
The arrangement for Dewa Suriya to stay at the ashram was made by Rudra Devi Samaj Malaysia deputy president G. Gunaraj.
The Persatuan Malayalee Klang (Mamangam) has also offered Dewa Suriya RM1,500 to tide her over until she finds a job.