My name is Rafiq. I'm 17 years old. I was born in Malaysia, but this is not my home.
Nowadays, there are a lot of issues that are happening in Myanmar. They don't like Muslims and they don't give us citizens.
They really don't like people like us, so they are just burning our house, killing Muslims in Myanmar.
They treat the refugee community really badly in the hospital. They just don't care about them.
They give the opportunity to citizens like the Malaysian people. Refugee cannot do certain things.
They can't get a proper job like Malaysian people. They just can't work like swipe the rubbish on the street.
And their salary is also really, really low. I feel so sad about that.
The other thing is that the refugee children can't go to government school because they don't have any documents.
They don't have any human, citizen, green card. My education is not enough. They say you are a refugee and you don't have any bright future.
They say that you will be suffering on the street.
They say Myanmar's refugee is useless. The first time when I heard that, I feel really sad. I feel really down.
I just don't know what my future will be. I tell God that I don't want to be like others. I want to have a bright future. Please help me.
YCK gave me a lot of knowledge. They gave me a lot of opportunities.
I made myself feel more confident.
Then I started to know what is really inside myself, what I can do.
We have Yaya San Chau Kit in 2006, particularly for children who are on and off the streets to give them a safe space for them to hang out and get services and mingle around.
We have a centre for children known as Pusat Activity Kanakana. Once they graduate from the Children's Centre, they move on to Kuala Lumpur Crashpad, which is our teenage centre.
There are almost 30 to 33 students who are refugees and state-less children. Whatever they can get from public school, we provide here.
The children here are attracted here because the programme we do is not so much like a dry subject like what happened in school.
It's more fun. We will catch them doing the fun kind of things. From there, then we will narrow down what they are needs.
We do have a programme who build their capacity, build their self-confidence, you know, kind of things.
When I ask people, I say, what do you think a refugee child or a state-less child will become one day?
And most of the people say, oh yeah, it can become a mechanic. It can be all kind of dangerous and dirty job.
So when I came here, I did a career test with them and all of them was actually, they wanted to become a doctor, one boy who wanted to become an astronaut.
They had dreams.
YCK Centre brought me to Justin Bieber's concert in 2010, you know, and it was really great.
I feel like, well, I never feel like this before. This is my first time listening to music and I feel something strange inside.
From that, I start to like music.
My first dream is that I want to be a singer, the most popular singer in the world.
I have recorded and I have been with my friends and I was rapping in English.
Now I was just thinking how life goes. It's all about life. The sun is all about life.
Through years, know what it means to be a boy, finding all the things that bring you joy, thinking on your feet all day and all night.
Because in life, you got to fight, fight, fight. For all you headers that they use so tough, it's better you will lose because I'm more rough, I'm lean, I'm mean, I'm a rapping machine.
My word is sweeter than any sweet dream.
When I just get on the stage, everyone's screaming, roughly, roughly, yeah. I'm still teenager and I feel like I'm popular.
I feel really happy when I'm on the stage. Sometimes I feel nervous, but when I start to sing, everything's gone.
When I learn a lot of things, I feel like I have so many talents. I can sing, I can dance, I can teach people how to dance.
I also teach my friends how to dance if there's a performance that we have to do.
When my friends feel sad and they think they don't have any future, I don't let them break down because I support them.
I say, you cannot feel like this, you also have a bright future, you must go on, you must hard work for your future, go for your future, live in yourself.
I want other people to know that being a refugee is not the weakness. They think only they have a bright future, they are the only one who can do everything.
Refugee is also human, they also have a bright future, they also can learn like that. They are the same. God created us the same.
I'm proud to be a refugee because I want to show to others that not only others can be a singer, can be a bright future.
Refugee also can have it, you know, a refugee could also deserve it, so I want to prove to the others.
When I achieve all my dreams, I will start to work with a government company like UNICEF, UNHCR that help refugee kids, refugee community.
I will be working with them, yeah, hope one day I could help that way, hope one day.
