Six months on from the record June flood, the Kokiri Centre in South Dunedin is open for business.
Less than a month before the flood, the non-profit kaupapa announced it had serious financial woes.
The centre had lost $295,166 in Tertiary Education Commission funding - almost half its annual budget.
The blow came after several years of funding cuts from the TEC.
It was "an almost perfect storm'' of trying circumstances, Arai te Uru Kokiri Centre trust interim chairman Haines Ellison said at the time.
The centre held a public meeting that attracted about 50 people and "awesome support from the community''.
The centre was in a holding pattern, Mr Ellison said.
Then the floodwaters hit.
"Water entered the building ... It was quite deep in places,'' he said.
"We lost a lot of our desks and chairs and things.
"The floodwaters had sewage [in them], so a lot of that stuff had to be thrown out.''
Luckily, Mr Ellison said, the centre's insurance covered the damage.
The centre remained in "a transition phase''.
"Basically, things haven't changed,'' he said.
For now, the centre would be offering only an alternative education course, and the Maori language courses run by Te Wananga o Aotearoa.
But "things may change by the end of 2016'', Mr Ellison said.
"With the floods and all the other things, we haven't managed to have strategic planning time.''
The centre was still looking for alternative sources of funding, too.
"We're not yet sure what funding we're looking for - that's part of the process,'' he said.
Nonetheless, the centre did not plan on going anywhere anytime soon.
"We're still here,'' he said.
"We haven't closed up shop.''
