We refer to the letter Mara letdown for poor S'wak bumi girl .

For your readers’ information, Mara does not provide a scheme or funding to buy shares nor part of the shares of any company or business.

Under the Mara Business Financing Scheme, a partnership between a bumiputera and a non-bumiputera is limited to professional fields provided that the bumiputera share must not be less than 80 percent and the said partnership already exists.

The writer is director, corporate affairs, Mara.