You cannot find your calling on
your own. It’s a process that
involves a team of mentors. And
everywhere you look, help is
available.
Getting pregnant at twenty-three years old was just about
the worst thing that could have happened to Ginny Phang. A
native Singaporean who had spent her childhood between
Indonesia and Singapore, she knew having a baby out of
wedlock meant trouble. This unexpected turn of events
would be the first in a series to change not only Ginny’s life
but also the lives of many other women. First, though, she
had to decide what to do about this baby.
“It started with me not doing well on my exams,” she
told me on a Skype call late one afternoon (early morning
for her). “In a place like Singapore . . . it’s very academic,
which means if you fail your exams or you don’t do well,
that’s the end of your life.”^1
Feeling lost, Ginny fled to Jakarta to live with her