{"id":58805,"date":"2015-02-25T09:00:23","date_gmt":"2015-02-25T01:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=58805"},"modified":"2023-07-21T04:32:00","modified_gmt":"2023-07-21T04:32:00","slug":"i-for-an-alternative-to-help-students-in-need","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=58805","title":{"rendered":"I-FOR an alternative to help students in need"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Photo caption:\u00c2\u00a0Grazie A&#8217; Studio at Education Building Cafeteria<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>By Ajwad Amal<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Due to the delay of PTPTN loan to be credited into students accounts and the confession of several students about their inability to buy food due to financial problem, SRC has launched I-FOR (IIUM Students for Food Relief) as an alternative to help these students.<\/p>\n<p>\u0153Food should be distributed to the students who are really in need especially for the PTPTN borrowers,\u009d said Chairperson of Welfare Secretariat SRC 14\/15, Mohd Solihin bin Che Rozali. He also emphasised the target to increase awareness of showing care towards friends who are in difficulties.<\/p>\n<p>Concerned in a similar way about this issue, second-year student of Ahmad Ibrahim Kulliyyah of Laws (AIKOL) who only wanted to be known as Nasrullah (22) also highlighted the importance of showing care towards their brothers and sisters.<\/p>\n<p>\u0153Friends should make sense of their friends condition\u009d, he told IIUMToday while at the same time supporting I-FOR project led by SRC to manage the meals in every caf\u00c3\u00a9 and\u00c2\u00a0<em>mahallah<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/20150218_113028.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-58831\" src=\"http:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/20150218_113028.jpg\" alt=\"20150218_113028\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This student-based charity project cooperated with welfare bureau of each Kulliyyah-Based Society (KBS), Mahallah Representative Council (MRC) and IIUM students had also grabbed the attention of IIUMs lecturers.<\/p>\n<p>\u0153Lecturers from different\u00c2\u00a0<em>kulliyyah<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0have gathered their money to help the students\u009d, said Mr Ekmal, the owner of Grazie A Studio located at Education Building Cafeteria. Recently, collaboration has been made between him and several lecturers to distribute RM5 food coupon for students in needed at his caf\u00c3\u00a9. Mr Ekmal also expressed his feeling of gratitude towards the commendable effort labored by the lecturers to help the students.<\/p>\n<p>\u0153I-FOR received a wide coverage from all over Malaysia including from the alumni of IIUM, residence around Gombak, and the residence in state outside Selangor,\u009d said the SRCs representative, Solihin while adding that a second wave will be launched as to empower the humanity project in IIUM until the end of their tenure.<\/p>\n<p>\u0153The SRCs President (Hanif Mahpa) believes that students institution will be stronger and more independent if we trust that a real change will happen from our own hands. If we care about our brothers and sisters who are in difficulties, we will work on giving a helping hand.\u009d***<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo caption:\u00c2\u00a0Grazie A&#8217; Studio at Education Building Cafeteria By Ajwad Amal Due to the delay of PTPTN loan to be credited into students accounts and&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"nelio_content":{"isAutoShareEnabled":true,"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"followers":[230,50],"suggestedReferences":[],"efiUrl":"","efiAlt":"","highlights":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[]},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58805"}],"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\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58805"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58935,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58805\/revisions\/58935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}