Four boys celebrated their birthdays in February. A simple celebration was held at Rumah Aman during lunch on the 29th. day of that month.

Our senior teacher, Ustaz Radzi recited a doa for the boys before the cake was cut. Since some older boys were not in attendance because they were at school, the house mother kept their share to be relished during tea time.

The birthday boys who turned eight years old this year were Waqiuddin Junatal and the twins, Zahiruddin and Zahirulhaq Amdan while Mohamad Ikmal Rashid Yaziz turned seven.

Were they surprised to see Spiderman standing on their cake which was wrapped around a spider’s web. All four of them tried to take Spiderman for themselves but was told to wait until the cake is cut.

When the cake was cut and shared among the boys, you could see on their smiling faces that they were enjoying themselves. And what became of Spiderman? He was soon forgotten, but we will not forget Aunty Aisha Halim for baking the cake for us as a present. Thank you and may Allah bless you and your family.

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…