RM129 thousand for Ramadhan Activities

Pekan, - Islamic Centre & Human Development (PIMPIN) will be organizing Ramadhan Festival to enliven the Holy Month of Ramadhan. Various activities will done from 15 May to 13 June 2018, such as Tarawikh Prayer, Quran Recital, Iftar Jamaie, Nuzul Al-Quran Seminar and many more.

UMP Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Dato. Sri Ts Dr. Daing Nasir Ibrahim handed over a cheque replica to PIMPIN Director, Dr. Mahyudin Ismail in an event that was held at Chancellery Tun Abdul Razak, UMP Pekan today. RM129 thousand were donated from MyGift Fund to be used for Ramadhan activities.

Prof. Dato’ Sri Ts Dr. Daing said, this donation is accumulated from fund collection, personal and corporate sponsorship through the UMP MyGift Endowment Initiatives launched by this university. This includes Ramadhan Activities Fund, a fund established to manage activities during the month of Ramadhan such as the preparation of Iftar and sahur.

“This contribution could help the management of the mosque to enliven this holy month with all sorts of activities beneficial to all staffs and students of UMP. This practice of breaking fast together at the mosque started few years back and will continue to be done since it receive a good response from UMP students and staffs”, he added.

Meanwhile, Dr Mahyudin said, PIMPIN is still maintaining the same concept, where each department took the responsibility to cook the menu which has been set earlier. They were helped by the students in preparing the food.

Food for iftar are prepared for 1400 students while for sahur the food are prepared for 200-300 students in each campus, he added.

He really hopes that everybody could take this opportunity to do good deed in this holy month of Ramadhan by donating to this fund.

To know more on this activities or to contribute, please go to mygift.ump.edu.my.