Karding was 6 years old when he and his family were forced to flee their Bajau community after their homes by the sea were burned down during the Zamboanga siege in 2013, and move to cramped ...

KUALA LUMPUR (Bernama) – Bilkuin Jimmysali, Enidah Mulsid and Shima Manan are barely out of their teens but they have been vested with the responsibility to provide basic education to the children of ...

MANILA, Philippines — What ought to be an ordinary day turned out to be a delightful and heartwarming surprise for selected Sama Bajau children and other indigent pupils enrolled at Aurora Quezon ...

Located on Omadal Island near Semporna Sabah, Iskul Sama DiLaut Omadal is a community-run school where dedicated children who went to government schools, teach their less fortunate Bajau Laut peers ...

Bilkuin Jimmysali, Enidah Mulsid and Shima Manan are barely out of their teens but they have been vested with the responsibility to provide basic education to the children of their Bajau Laut ...

CHILDREN of the Sama-Bajau Indigenous group based in Barangay San Dionisio, Parañaque City, closed the school year on a bright note, with two back-to-back events hosted by Sun Life ...

SANDAKAN, Sabah: On most afternoons, Hassan Suhidin and his younger brother, Khairul, would climb down the rickety wooden planks of their village into the rancid shallow waters underneath. The coastal ...

Les Stroud lives with the Sea Bajau people who call the waters of Borneo home. Les explores the spiritual, cultural and physical survival of the Bajau. They belong to no country; their allegiance to ...

TAWI-TAWI, Philippines – It takes two flights from Manila to Tawi-Tawi, and another two-hour ferry ride to reach Sitangkai, the southernmost island of the Philippines where most of the structures are ...

The Bajau people of Malaysia and the Philippines are renowned for their free-diving abilities, often working eight-hour shifts in search of fish and other sea critters. Underwater sessions can last ...