{"id":136097,"date":"2019-12-05T15:24:38","date_gmt":"2019-12-05T15:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=136097"},"modified":"2019-12-05T18:48:17","modified_gmt":"2019-12-05T18:48:17","slug":"volunteering-is-a-responsibility-in-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=136097","title":{"rendered":"Volunteerism as a show of responsibility in society"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>By Syawanie Zaini<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>GOMBAK, 5 December 2019: A forum on \u0153Women &amp; Volunteerism\u009d recently held at Experimental Hall, IIUM was designed to create awareness among people on volunteerism and their responsibility for helping those in need.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The forum featured three speakers: Madam Siti Rahayu Baharin, the founder of &#8216;Buku Jalanan Chow Kit&#8217;, Miss Siti Hajar binti Wan Ibrahim, the volunteer of MYCorps and Madam Hajjah Asral Widad binti Ahmad Asnawi, the founder of Pusat Kecemerlangan Pendidikan Ummah<em> <\/em>(PACU) and Darul Insyirah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was held for the \u0153Women Empowerment Project: Symposium of Srikandi\u009d organised in collaboration of Pembina IIUM, Ma aruf Club, Harmoni IIUM,<em> &#8216;<\/em>Silat Cekak Hanafi&#8217; and &#8216;Persatuan Kebangsaan Pelajar Islam Malaysia&#8217; (PKPIM IIUM).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Siti Rahayu Baharin raised the issue that the volunteerism programme such as Soup Kitchen Soup might turn people to become homeless as food is now readily available.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The forum highlighted, &#8220;If we want to help people, with the help of God everything will go well. As volunteers, we planned only for their needs, for needy people, the rest trust in His power.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, Siti Hajar binti Wan Ibrahim said her friend managed to get the donation for volunteerism although just within two months for them do all the work. She added, &#8220;We need to have the blessings from parents and be brave to be woman volunteers.&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the forum session, Rahayu Baharin, also known as Cikgu Ayu said that \u0153volunteerism is our responsibility, do not give excuse.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hajjah Asral Widad binti Ahmad Asnawi, the founder of &#8216;Pusat Kecemerlangan Pendidikan Ummah&#8217; (PACU) stated that PACU is a place for volunteerism, &#8220;such as at Darul Insyirah, <em>Projek Tuisyen Ummah<\/em>, i- Backyard Science, Raudhatul Huffaz, i- Backpackers and &#8216;Kelab Relawan Ummah'&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The forum was conducted in Bahasa Malaysia with three sessions for each speaker and ended with Question and Answer (Q and A) session.***<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Syawanie Zaini GOMBAK, 5 December 2019: A forum on \u0153Women &amp; Volunteerism\u009d recently held at Experimental Hall, IIUM was designed to create awareness among&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":136098,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6,3],"tags":[],"nelio_content":{"isAutoShareEnabled":true,"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"followers":[134,111,12,5],"suggestedReferences":[],"efiUrl":"","efiAlt":"","highlights":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[]},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/WhatsApp-Image-2019-11-28-at-7.24.44-AM.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136097"}],"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=136097"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136205,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136097\/revisions\/136205"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/136098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=136097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=136097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=136097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}