Our Friends in Blackburn

All of us at Rumah Aman are always grateful to Allah for blessing us with friends who care and believe in what we are doing. This is especially so during this blessed month of Ramadhan and when Rumah Aman 2 is well on the way to completion.

Our friends in Blackburn is a case in point. Since 2008, through the tireless efforts of Sister Sofia Esa and Sister Latifa Umar, the ladies from Blackburn have contributed a total of GBP53,000 (GBP20,000 in 2008 and GBP33,000 in 2009) raised during charity dinners that were organised. Besides the charity functions, contributions from our friends in the U.K have been deposited into an account with Habibsons Bank Ltd and periodically transferred to Malaysia.

In recognition of their generosity, we are giving them the honour of naming the prayer hall (or 'surau' in Malay) at Rumah Aman 2. So come on ladies, put on your thinking caps and submit your entries by posting comments to this post.

To our friends in Blackburn, Jazakallahu Khairan Kathiro and to everyone Ramadhan Kareem.

Ahlah Wa Sahlan Ya Ramadhan Al-Mubarak

Assalamualaikum.

Dear Brothers and Sisters,

Ahlan Wa Sahlan Ya Ramadhan...

Rumah Aman wish you and family a Happy and Blessed Ramadhan. May Allah's blessings shine upon you and your loved ones always. May this month of Ramadhan be a month of inspiration filled with Iman and Taqwa and Divine Love for Allah swt.

In this month of giving and feeling for one another, we hope we're always in your thoughts. Rumah Aman still seeks your care, assistance and support to bring about a change for the better to the lives of 110 children when Rumah Aman 2 in Sungai Buloh is ready.

Please visit our website www.rumahaman.com to find out more about Rumah Aman Shah Alam and Rumah Aman 2 in Sungai Buloh.

Ramadhan Kareem to all!

Jazakallahu Khairan Kathiro. Wasalam.

Warmest Regards,

Mr. & Mrs. Abdul Rehman Dakri

Staff and Children of Rumah Aman

Maher Zain at Rumah Aman!

Maher Zain, the Swedish/Lebanese singer/music producer of "Thank You Allah" fame and his friends Brother Amir and Brother Wali ur-Rahman dropped in for a surprise visit at Rumah Aman on Friday 15 October 2010. They spent 2 hours with Brother Abdul Rehman Dakri (the founder), staff and children of Rumah Aman.

Good Show at SKRM Sports Day

Some of our boys did quite well in the Sekolah Kebangsaan Raja Muda annual school sports held on April 6, 2010 at the National Sports Complex, Seksyen 4 Shah Alam.

Roslan Hamgalim, 10, managed third placing and won the bronze medal for the 100 meters dash and helped his Yellow House to win the bronze medal for the 4 x 100 meters relay team.

Ahmad Amri Arba’in, also 10 years old also managed to get third placing for the 100 meters dash for the special children class and helped his relay team to win the 4 x 100 meters silver medal.

Muhammad Firdan Rahmat, 11, with 33 of his team mates made the Red House proud when they won the gold medal for the best house in the marching competition.

Good show boys and keep up the good spirit of sportsmanship.

Academic Acolades

Three of Rumah Aman boys attending primary education at Sekolah Kebangsaan Raja Muda (SKRM), Seksyen 4, Shah Alam showed their academic potential by registering good results for their end year school examination.

Abu Hurairah bin Junatal,8, surprised everyone when he came out tops in his class of Year One for the 2009 end year examination.

Rizal, 10, also made great improvements in his academic prowess when he came out 4^th in his class for the end year examination

Ahmad Amri Arba’in, 10, who is in a class for special children also came out tops in his class.

All three received a certificate of excellence and a plaque each.

Our Year One Student of 2010

This year, seven of Rumah Aman boys entered primary school Year One beginning January 4^th 2010.

They are Tuan Noor Umarul Amin bin Tuan Noor Azmi, Mohammad Ikhwan Shauqi bin Azwani Sham, twins, Muhammad Ilyas and Ilyasaq bin Mohd Azmi,, Muhammad Firdaus bin Hadiyani, Muhammad Azim bin Mohd Abdullah Sajat and Muhammad Faiz bin Md Saleh.

All of them are attending Sekolah Kebangsaan Raja Muda at Jalan Cempedak Seksyen 4, Shah Alam.

In addition, our six year old boy, Aidil Afiat bin Yaziz has also begun attending pre-school education at the same school on the same day.

We hope they will enjoy school and study hard.

New Website Offcially Launched

The new Rumah Aman website was officially launched by founder, Abdul Rehman Dakri on 31^st December 2009 to replace the older version which has been dormant for some time now.

The web blog was designed and uploaded with the assistance of a friend of Rumah Aman, Mr. Amir Shariffuddin in May 2009.

We also like to take this opportunity to convey our heartfelt thanks and gratitude to our former administrator, Ms. Saliyati Suhaimi for designing and uploading our very first website in 2005 and to Mr. Jamalus Ramli for creating our blog in 2007 in the absence of the website.

The launching of the new website http://www.rumahaman.com was one of the highlights of Rumah Aman prize giving day for the year 2009 to celebrate the children who did well in their studies and also for those who improved on their adab at school and also at Rumah Aman.

The children were excited and happy to see their pictures and profiles posted in the new website and also in the interactive CD, produced by the students of One Academy. Among others it featured a short video on the life of the children in Rumah Aman.

The event was opened with a dua by Mohamad Ikhwan Shauqi, 6, followed by a Quran recital by Asyraf Hakimi, 9 years old. The Masters of Ceremonies were Raziq Hafizi and Muhammad Arif, both 10 years old who spoke alternately in English and Malay.

This year the 6 year-olds, namely Muhammad Azim, Muhamad Faiz, Muhammad Firdaus, Mohammad Ikhwan Shauqi, Tuan Noor Umarul and the twins, Muhammad Ilyas and Ilyasaq were presented with a certificate of attendance for having followed pre-school in Rumah Aman.

The prizes to the winners for the sports and games were presented by Abdul Rehman’s mother, Mrs. Huri Dakri. The sports festival was held at Rumah Aman from 9^th to 21^st December 2009. The overall champion was team Yaqin. The other competing teams were Taqwa, Sabar, Iman, and Ehsan.

During the 12 days sports festival, there were eight indoor games contested namely table tennis for both the children and staff, checkers, scrabble, chess, monopoly, sahiba (malay language scrabble), congkak ( a traditional malay indoor game) and a jig-saw puzzle competition for the six, seven and eight year old boys and one outdoor game namely, rounders.

For the second year running Razman Azrai , 8, and Raziq Hafizi, 10, each won the best student award for their age group while Abu Hurairah,7, and Mohamad Nor Amirul Shah,9, came out tops in their age group.

Roslan Hamgalim,9, won the Most Pleasant Child award in Rumah Aman for his good adab, likeable personality, willingness to co-operate in all aspects in Rumah Aman, and is a responsible person.

Well done boys.