{"id":135908,"date":"2019-12-04T03:07:35","date_gmt":"2019-12-04T03:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=135908"},"modified":"2019-12-04T05:03:52","modified_gmt":"2019-12-04T05:03:52","slug":"a-new-help-team-has-requited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=135908","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Help Team&#8217; to assist with students&#8217; needs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>By Reem Ahmed&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>GOMBAK, 4 December 2019: A new help team for this semester has been recruited by the International Students Affairs Office recently to help out with students on their needs and queries.&nbsp;<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The &#8216;Help Team&#8217; is a team of students working voluntarily at the International Students Affairs Office on matters related to the office as well as helping and serving students&#8217; needs and queries,&nbsp;according to one of the Help team developers, Nirmal Shah.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the co-founders of Buddies Club and Vice President, Sadia Shafqat, said the &#8216;Help Team&#8217; is one of the core missions of Buddies Club which operates under the International Student Affairs Office aimed at creating better integration between international and local students.&nbsp;&nbsp;<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u0153We have our arms open to anyone who needs us at any time regardless of any nationality or any education background and so on,\u009d Sadia Shafqat explained.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sadia pointed out that in the &#8216;Help Team&#8217; currently are eight members from different countries including Malaysian students too who work at the office according to their free time.&nbsp;<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She stated that the team is provided with jackets (as a mobile &#8216;Help Team&#8217;) so that students can recognise them at any time not only in the office, and ask for help.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She also mentioned that students with social and job experiences will receive certificates after their work period for one semester is completed.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u0153Yes we do not have all answers, but even in that case, we are at least there to connect with students with people who can help them,\u009d Sadia furtherv said .***<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Reem Ahmed&nbsp; GOMBAK, 4 December 2019: A new help team for this semester has been recruited by the International Students Affairs Office recently to&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":135911,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6,3,24],"tags":[],"nelio_content":{"isAutoShareEnabled":true,"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"followers":[134,12,111,5],"suggestedReferences":[],"efiUrl":"","efiAlt":"","highlights":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[]},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/logo-buddies-club-1.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135908"}],"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=135908"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136069,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135908\/revisions\/136069"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/135911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=135908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=135908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=135908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}