Community effort: Tan Boon Diam of SlopeWatch explaining about landslides to the orang asli children during the Community Slope Monitoring programme at Kampung Sungai Ruil in Cameron Highlands.
CAMERON HIGHLANDS: Four years after a landslide buried part of their village and killed seven people, the orang asli of Kampung Sungai Ruil are learning the art of slope monitoring and rain gauging.
They received two rain gauge sets from the Rotary Club of Kobe in Japan during a slope monitoring community programme for orang asli – the first of its kind in the country.
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