By Izzud deen Redzuan
GOMBAK: After last year’s successful project, UMission Club of IIUM is back again to organise a second humanitarian outreach project in Cambodia this month. This programme will be held at Dam Sbai village in Battambang Province, Cambodia from October  3 to 11 2014.
The outreach project, ˜The Global Mission-Journey of Khalifah to Cambodia 2 Â is aimed at providing a platform for UMission Club members for engaging with humanitarian efforts with sincerity and earnestness to help the underprivileged and the abandoned Muslim community in Cambodia.
Apart from that, the participants want to help the needy and the poor to feel the happiness of celebrating ˜Aid al-Adha as a major festival in Islam and to strengthen the spirit of ukhuwwah based on the principles of Taaruf, Tafahum and Takaful with the Cambodians and among the participants.
This is a nine-day programme that has been supervised by CENSERVE in collaboration with IIUM Health and Wellness Centre, UMission4Life Team, IKRAM Shah Alam and Alumni Association of Sekolah Menengah Sultan Abdul Halim (SMSAH, Jitra) and Telekung Project.
The mission programme manager, Muhammad Asri Ismail noted that they have successfully collected a big donation for the Cambodians and gathered at least  a ton of clothing, telekung, kopiah and others all from the kind-hearted IIUM community as well as the outsiders. To be noted, yesterday Telekung Project had sponsored 200 of telekung and donate an amount of money.
œThis outreach programme will be accompanied by two doctors from the Office of Health & Wellness Centre of IIUM, 44 members of UMission Club itself, lecturers and a representative from CENSERVE,” he said further.
Among the highlights of activities of this humanitarian mission are slaughtering of cows for qurban and aqiqah in the morning of ˜Aid al-Adha, three days of mass male circumcision, distribution of donation to the Cambodians (clothes, al-Quran, muqaddam, sejadah, school stationaries), clean water project, and womens art and craft project, and childrens fund education project.
Of the activities, womens art and craft project is to improve the economies of Cambodian families. In this project the Cambodian women will be taught art, textiles, food and craft to enable them to make saleable products guided by instructors and the committees.
In this way, Muhammad Asri believed that all participants are able to pick up more encounters and be more committed in fulfilling their duties and responsibilities towards the general public. He accepted that this mission will expand their self-assurance, respect toward oneself and initiative qualities later on.
May this humble project achieve the pleasure of Allah and May Allah grant you (in return) a good reward. Ameen.
Photo by Muhammad Asri