The MEDRF Elite 4x4 Search and Rescue Squad repaired damaged roads to enable them to get to the remote parts of Kelantan where Orang Asli folk were affected by the floods in recent weeks. – Pic courtesy of Alison Sandra Murugesu of MEDRF, January 10, 2015.Helping flood victims in Kelantan, the worst hit east coast state in the disaster, was a gruelling task for some volunteers.Members of the Malaysia Elite Disaster Rescue Foundation (MEDRF) who took aid to Orang Asli communities in secluded areas in Kelantan, found themselves having to cut up fallen trees that blocked their path and drove on badly-damaged roads and perilous bridges.While on their way to Pos Tohoi, the MEDRF's Elite 4x4 Search and Rescue Squad members, who travelled in convoys, found that a bridge 11km from the village was broken. Volunteers and the Orang Asli were turned into instant civil engineers and builders to repair the bridge so that the convoy could pass.There were several occasions during their humanitarian mission last week when the convoy had to stop and repair damaged roads and bridges to get through.As many people needed help, the squad members even slept in the open under tents at night, so they could continue helping the stranded natives.The trials faced by the volunteers were documented in hundreds of photos by Alison Sandra Murugesu, who shared them on Facebook.She posted photos of tents with foldable beds and chairs where they had slept for three nights, and kitchen utensils that suggested they also had to cook and eat outdoors.
The MEDRF team came prepared to rough it up with tents and foldable beds during their stay with the Orang Asli in remote parts of Kelantan. – Pic courtesy of Alison Sandra Murugesu of MEDRF, January 10, 2015.She also shared pictures of the affected Temiar folks. One showed a group in Kuala Betis, who were cut off from their village in Pos Balar from two weeks due to the floods.They were standed in Kuala Betis when the weather turned for the worse on December 21 and could not return to their village until New Year's Day. She said the people had no idea how the village and their families were faring.Another photo showed Kampung Jias, one of the worst hit villages, where everyone had to be relocated to a temporary shelter on the hill."Most of them lost everything," she wrote in the caption of the photo. Several other photos depicted the devastation in the village, where homes were destroyed and almost everything was covered in mud.As the floodwaters receded, other private volunteers on the ground had also turned their attention to victims in secluded locations.On January 1, motivator and professional speaker Raja Shamri Raja Husin from Pasir Puteh, Kelantan, who had organised flood relief efforts, posted on Facebook that help must be sent to those in far and isolated locations.In Kelantan, 39 relief centres around the state still had 4,742 flood evacuees, as of yesterday.The flood disaster, the worst the country had seen in decades, affected more than 200,000 people in several states over the past few weeks. – January 10, 2015.
Bringing some cheer to the folks of Kampung Jias, one of the most badly-hit communities, the MEDRF team put up temporary shelters for the Orang Asli folk who lost everything. – Pic courtesy of Alison Sandra Murugesu of MEDRF, January 10, 2015.
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