Remnants of life in a container

Remnants of life in a container

Tadiyapan is a senior citizen who has been living in a container in Tanjung Bunga Penang for the last 4 years after being dismissed from employment.

He was born in Penang in 1939 and he is now 72 years old. He is living alone in a container at a construction site in Tanjung Bunga Penang.

4 years ago he lost a job as a security guard due to deteriorating vision caused by diabetics and was unable to pay the rent for the house he lived in.

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Now he is getting help from the public on a daily basis.

His future is uncertain and the possibility that he could be driven out of the place he lives in after the project is completed at a construction site is looming.

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Now he hopes that the government and the welfare department could help him to find a permanent solution to his dire circumstances.

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