| Hakim Hayat |
A CEREMONY was yesterday held at the new Brunei Council on Social Welfare (MKM) office in Kampong Sungai Hanching to hand over $2,698.75 in donations, which will be channelled towards helping refugees.
The Institute of Brunei Technical Education (IBTE) Community Club raised the funds through a donation drive held recently in support of the MKM’s 2nd Rohingya Humanitarian Mission to Balukhali Refugee Camp at Cox Bazar, Bangladesh.
The donation drive – from January 31 to February 19 – was conducted throughout IBTE central campuses, which includes IBTE Business Campus, IBTE Sultan Saiful Rijal Campus, IBTE Nakhoda Ragam Campus and IBTE Mechanical Campus.
IBTE Community Club President Setia Wardi said the students’ participation in the MKM Rohingya Humanitarian Mission will not only offer the much-needed assistance to the refugees, but also help to instil a sense of community responsibility among students.
Teachers Md Reza Phalavi and Ahmad Ikhwanuddin, both advisors to the IBTE Community Club, handed over the donation to MKM Head of the Rohingya Humanitarian Mission Mohd Yusof Halim, in the presence of MKM President Datin Paduka Hajah Intan binti Haji Mohd Kassim, Secretary Hamidah Lakem and Treasurer Hajah Sarbiah binti Haji Mohd Yassin.
Twelve MKM members will head to the Bulakhali Refugee Camp at Cox Bazar on March 1 to distribute food packs to 4,760 families and help build 25 tubewells for the refugees.
Each food pack will provide sustenance to a family of four for one week, and one tubewell will provide a continuous supply of water to 200 refugees.
MKM will also be upgrading the school for refugee orphans, which was set up in October last year and has 500 students. Sixty of these students are in the Tahfiz programme.
This will be the MKM’s second humanitarian mission to the Rohingya Balukhali Refugee Camp. Last November, four MKM members had gone to help distribute 9,400 food packs and build 420 tubewells.
On the second mission, MKM will collect data on all the orphans at the school and hopes to subsequently launch an ‘Adopt an Orphan’ programme, allowing the Brunei community to assist in financing the upkeep and education of orphans at the school on a monthly basis.
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