Rumah Aman Hit by Flood

Rumah Aman was submerged by over a metre of water on Friday, February 29, 2008. This is the sixth time the orphanage was hit by flood since it started operations in June 2005.

Water started rising after a heavy downpour for about an hour. There was nothing much the staff could do except to salvage whatever they can especially files in the office and books in classrooms. Furniture and electrical equipments were moved to higher places. All the children were also shooed upstairs.

Although Rumah Aman is situated in a low area, the situation is worsened because there is no outlet around the area, for water to flow out, even the lake opposite the road is filled up and the Damansara River which is about three kilometers away could not contain the volume of rain water.

After the rain subsided, the staff and some volunteers took four hours to bucket out the remaining water and clean the place finishing about 11.00 o'clock at night. This has been a recurring problem and the staff gets worried every time the sky turns dark...