Terengganu students affected by floods can wear normal clothes to school

KUALA TERENGGANU: Students affected by the floods can attend school in normal clothes, says Terengganu Education Department.

Its deputy director (School Management Sector) Azman Othman @ Abdullah said the department understood the difficulties faced by flood victims and would work to ease their burden.

"I would like to advise the students to come to school (when schools reopen on Jan 2), even in normal clothing if their uniforms are damaged or washed away by the floods.

"If their stationery or books are damaged, don’t worry... just come to school. If their textbooks are damaged, they can report to the class teacher," he told Bernama when contacted today (Dec 30).

Meanwhile, Azman said the post-flood cleaning operations at schools are being actively carried out by the respective district Education Offices with the help of the local community.

He said the third wave of floods that started on Dec 24 had affected 32 schools, especially in the districts of Hulu Terengganu, Dungun and Setiu.

He said five schools were still operating as relief centres.

The schools were SK Durian Mentangau, SK Tanjung Pati, SK Padang Pulut and SK Delong in Dungun, as well as SMK Merchang in Marang.

As of 10am, the situation continued to improve in the flood-hit areas of the state with 733 evacuees from 198 families still at 13 relief centres in the districts of Marang, Kuala Nerus and Dungun.