For the Samoan Early childhood centre that I have the privilege of serving and am currently on leave as the Chairperson (in trying to finish my PhD thesis), our centre also was affected with our babies' room being flooded.
So we were instructed, by the visiting Ministry of Education assessors who were checking through on affected centres, to construct a noise barrier for the new space where I babies would be placed. This involved measuring the area to ensure that it was compliant and also we were given some guidelines on what it could look like.
In the end, we opted to purchase two large room dividers that were secured to a partial wall partition with thick Tongan tapa draped over the dividers (as seen above). I thank my dear friend who gifted this tapa to my family with the memorial service that we had for him last year after a year of mourning. It was such a gracious gift that I know my late father would have wanted for our Aoga (school) to use.
So now awaiting to see if it passes the test of the Ministry of Education assessors and then we are good to go for our babies to return to the centre in their new space whilst awaiting for the church's Insurance assessors to allow for new carpeting after having taken out the wet carpet.
Hopefully, the predicted storm this weekend won't have the same devastating effects that the last one had but definitely keeping a watch out for new erratic weather as a result of the effects of climate change and global warming as we are told...
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