Sari Hati School in Bali — A Free Special Needs School for the Poor
For A Mother’s Wish, Sari Hati School, a free special needs school for the poor, offers a heartwarming and loving model for caring for...
A Mother's Wish's Subsidised Holiday Programme — "Colourful Body" by Ivy Chew
Big thanks go out to Ivy Chew who ran our "Colourful Body" programme, the volunteers, carers, and last, but certainly not least, our...
Moving Sebastien to Bali: One-Year Retrospective
Life-Changing Decision Towards the end of August, Jerome and I decided to move Sebastien, my 20-year-old son, from Singapore to Bali....
Snapshots of an Enlightened Society
Travelling with Sebastien, my autistic son, has always felt like an adventure, a foray into the unknown, despite the fact that he has...
A Mother’s Wish for My Autistic Son
The beginning of 2014 was a time of reckoning. It had been one year since I let go of the security of a monthly pay cheque for home-based...
Sebastien’s Season of Adolescence: Puberty Unleashed
Sebastien's season of adolescence can be described, to borrow the brilliant lines of Charles Dickens, as “the best of times”..., and...
Smiles for Sebastien
Snapshot 1: Suspended between night and day, it is the magical twilight hour at Yangon's famous Shwedagon Pagoda, with its towering...
What Would It Take?
This the second of a two-article series about the challenges and implications of raising an individual with autism, which was sparked off...
When Aggression Strikes… Mama Goes on Strike!
This the first of a two-part articles series about the challenges and implications of raising an individual with autism, which was...
