Pouring their hearts into preventing landslide deaths

Hard at work: Iwana (right) and her students are developing an early warning system prototype for landslide detection. She says the students sacrifice their weekends to work on the project.

KOTA KINABALU: For the past few months, SMK Kolombong teacher Iwana Ivy Abdullah and her small group of students have been staying back in school for a very important project.

Sacrificing rest time and energy, Iwana and her students, aged between 13 and 15, have been developing a prototype that could help detect abnormalities in the movement of the earth just before a landslide occurs.