"[3] Her father, Noor Mohamed, was an important man and one of the first Malay people to learn English, which he taught his daughter.
[3] After World War II, she and her husband housed orphans and women in need in their own home, which was located on Desker Road in the middle of the "red-light district.
"[3] Che Zahara founded MWWA in October 1947 and used the group to focus on issues surrounding marriage reform.
[4] In 1948, she wrote four short plays to be performed as a protest against traditional Malay marriage customs, which included the ability of a man to divorce his wife without legal inquiry.
[7] After the Singapore Council of Women (SCW) was founded in 1952, Che Zahara had a "wider network and more resources available to the MWWA.