{"id":118334,"date":"2017-11-12T22:09:05","date_gmt":"2017-11-12T14:09:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=118334"},"modified":"2017-11-12T22:09:05","modified_gmt":"2017-11-12T14:09:05","slug":"free-food-distribution-for-iium-community-at-convest17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=118334","title":{"rendered":"Free food distribution for IIUM community at Convest&#8217;17"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Masturah Jamilah<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>GOMBAK, 12 November 2017: Free food distribution was made available at CONVEST 17 or Convocation Fiesta for the IIUM community at business compound, in front of SHAS Mosque, from 12.45 p.m until 2 p.m yesterday (11 November).<\/p>\n<p>Called\u00c2\u00a0 \u02dcRewang Convest, IIUM community members were seen queuing up for food handled by the committees.<\/p>\n<p>The objective of the programme was to instil the spirit of volunteerism and teamwork among the students, its committee member, Muhammad Afiq Norazman said.<\/p>\n<p>\u0153Everyone loves food, so by sharing this, we hope that they will be happy and this is why we want to share the love and happiness among IIUM community,\u009d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u0153I am very satisfied with this work as I can manage the food distribution to all students very well,\u009d said one of the volunteers.<\/p>\n<p>Sponsored by Restoran Nelayan Gombak Batu 8, this \u02dcrewang event served a variety of food, the main dish being plain rice with chicken curry.<\/p>\n<p>\u0153Alhamdulillah, the food provided was so delicious and there&#8217;s also Rohingya food which is rare for me, but it&#8217;s good and Im so satisfied with it even though I have to come early to queue up,\u009d said Suwaibah Mardhiyah, one of the students who took the free food.<\/p>\n<p>It was estimated that almost 500 people were served with food from the \u02dcrewang, including the Rohingya dishes.<\/p>\n<p>Before the food distribution, students were entertained by the singing performance from The Prism.<\/p>\n<p>CONVEST &#8217;17 is the largest programme held in conjunction with the 33rd Convocation which started yesterday (11 November) and would end on Monday (13 November). It received support mainly from NAMA Foundation. ***<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-118336 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/WhatsApp-Image-2017-11-11-at-1.06.58-PM-500x281.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-118337 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/WhatsApp-Image-2017-11-11-at-11.42.00-AM-500x667.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"667\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-118338 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/WhatsApp-Image-2017-11-11-at-11.42.01-AM-500x667.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"667\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Masturah Jamilah GOMBAK, 12 November 2017: Free food distribution was made available at CONVEST 17 or Convocation Fiesta for the IIUM community at business&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"nelio_content":{"isAutoShareEnabled":true,"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"followers":[],"suggestedReferences":[],"efiUrl":"","efiAlt":"","highlights":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[]},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118334"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=118334"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118360,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118334\/revisions\/118360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=118334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=118334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=118334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}