Recipient of DHL Book Drive

Our benefactor, the Truly Loving Company (TLC) participated in a book donation drive organised by their corporate buddy DHL, recently.

TLC included two of their charity partners, namely Rumah Aman and Shelter Home for children as beneficiaries of the drive.

The books in English and Malay were presented to Rumah Aman by TLC’s director Mr. Khaw Chay Tee on October 6^th.

The children were delighted to receive the books. It will surely enhance their general knowledge and help them improve their reading and spelling skills.

Pix 1: Mr. Khaw Chay Tee, director of TLC handing over the books to Mr. Khalid Shah, principal of Rumah Aman.

Pix 2: Some of the children browsing through some of the books received from DHL's book donation drive.

Visit by Young UK Musicians

Six post graduate students from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama United Kingdom visited Rumah Aman on August 20, and made music for the children.

The children had fun singing along with the students and the one that captured their imagination most was making harmonic noises to the rhythm of a beat-box music.

The students, Jonathan Ang (Singapore), Fernando Machado (Brazil), Felipe Souza (Portugal), Aiko (Japan), Letty (United Kingdom) and Preetha (USA) were in Singapore and Malaysia for a leadership programme which forms part of their school curriculum.

While in Malaysia, they were hosted by The Malaysian Philharmonic Youth Orchestra (MPYO).

MPYO Senior Executive, Audrey Huey Lin Ho said, the students had visited the National Arts Culture and Heritage Academy and also attended a music workshop withn their peers at the Music Faculty of MARA University Institute of Technology (UiTM).

She said, the students were here to interact with local musicians in their age group without much assitance of musical instruments to produce a "very organic" kind of music.

Rumah Aman was their last stop before proceeding to Bali for a vacation and then for home.

Football Clinic for Our Boys

Our benefactor, The Truly Loving Company (TLC) organised a football clinic on August 12 for our boys who were excited to be under the able guidance of Malaysian former international, Mohd Khasim Kasi Abdullah.

Doning their new football jerseys, compliments from TLC, the boys from the age of 7 to 10 years old eagerly displayed their talents to Mohd Khasim who was impressed with their discipline and determination and how quickly they organised themselves.

Mohd Khasim will continue another five sessions of training with the boys where he will teach them the basics of the game and introduce a regime to enhance their football skills.

The football clinic was organised by TLC as part of its programme to support Rumah Aman as a charity partner. At the end of the football clinic that day, TLC made a donation of RM10,000.00 to Rumah Aman.

Thank you TLC. Thank you Mohd Khasim.

Exposure at Fella Design

Rumah Aman was given a booth, compliments from Fella Design when it held its sales expo at its head office in Persiaran Elektron, Bukit Subang, Selangor from 26th June to 5th July.

Rumah Aman was however unable to participate for the whole duration of the expo due to prior commitments but managed to set up the booth from 26th to 28th June (Friday, Saturday and Sunday). The teachers and administration staff took turns to man the booth.

The response from the public was most heartwarming and we believed through that event Rumah Aman was given much exposure and were able to reach out to a lot more people.

Those who patronised the event was also very generous in giving. Rumah Aman managed to raise RM1,200.00 during the three days we were there.

Thank you Fella Design especially to Kelvin and his staff for being very helpful and attended to our needs during the exposition.

A Guest From Finland

On 22nd June 2009, Rumah Aman received a guest from Finland, Dr. Parvez Alam who was representing a charity body called Fighting For Lives ( http://www.fightingforlives.com) .

Figthing For Lives is a charity body consisting of martial art exponents who raise funds for children charities by organising martial arts seminars.

Dr. Parvez Alam who is a silat expert himself (silat is a popular martial art form in South East Asia) took time after the science seminar he attended, to visit silat masters in various parts of Malaysia.

He also took the opportunity to visit some orphanages since he was entrusted to distribute food, educational materials, money for building, repairs and re-equipping orphanages with materials besides having fun silat sessions with the children at the orphanages.

Thank you Dr. Parvez Alam for your dedication and contributions. Please do come and visit us again.

To view his trip to Malaysia, please log on to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtvUu5CtIs

Flood Mitigation Project

The Shah Alam City Council (MBSA) started a flood mitigation project last May in an effort to curb flooding at Seksyen 2, Seksyen 3 and Seksyen 4 where the water will be about a meter deep after an hour of heavy downpour.

The flood mitigation project consists of digging a covered monsoon drain from the the junction of Jalan Mawar 2/5 and Jalan Bunga Tanjung 2/16 along Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah Secondary School and part of Jalan Bunga Cempaka 2/11 where Rumah Aman is situated and part of Jalan Bunga Kertas 2/15 before cutting across the main road, Persiaran Dato' Menteri before converging with the 5.85 meters deep monsoon drain located under the Shah Alam Wet World Theme Park car park where water will then flow into the Damansara River about 700 meters away from Rumah Aman.

The newly constructed monsoon drain will be about 400 meters long from the junction of Jalan Bunga Mawar 2/5 and Jalan Bunga Tanjung 2/1 to the Wet World car park.

Presently the contractor have dug up a monsoon drain measuring 4.5 meters deep and 2 meters wide from the junction of Jalan Bunga Mawar 2/5 and Jalan Bunga Tanjung 2/16, part of Jalan Bunga Cempaka 2/11 and part of Jalan Bunga Kertas 2/15.

The project is scheduled to be completed by the first week of August. We hope the flood mitigation project will be a success.

Our OwnTae Kwan-do Team

Four of Rumah Aman's children competed in a Petaling District School Spot Council Tae Kwan-do competition last June organised jointly bt the Selangor Tae Kwan-do Associtaion, Petaling Perdana District Schools Office and Petaling Utama District Schools Office.

The competition was opened to school children from the age of 9 to 19 years old in various categories. Our children competed in the primary school category which was held at D'Kelana Hall, Kelana Jaya, Selangor on June 17, 2009.

Muhammad Redha Yaasin, 10, as placed second in the 22kg weight category

Muhammad Arif Fauzi, 10, won the first round against a black belt holder but lost the second round to another black belt holder in the heavyweight category.

Raziq Hafizi and Muhammad Firdan Rahmat, both 10 years old, however, lost to their opponents in the first round in the under 30 kg category.

Although they did not get good results overall, the competition was a good exposure for them since taking up tae kwan-do lesson since two years ago.

Keep it up boys and try harder next time.