KUALA LUMPUR: Hardships in life due to poverty should never be a hindrance to achieving success and six Baitulmal Icon of the Federal Territory Islamic Religious Council (MAIWP) are living testimonies.
Fazliana Shirat, Asnah Ramsi, Md Sabidi Abdullah and Rahimi Jonri today can be proud of themselves after being appointed as MAIWP Entrepreneur’s Icon Award recipients in recognition of their striving efforts to improve lives through business after getting help from Baitulmal MAIWP.
In the case of Nuryn Zhafaryna Mohd Fahros and Nurul Athiyah Hanim Berahim, who were named Academic Icon Award recipients, they should be role models especially for teenagers to achieve academic success.
Sharing her experience, Fazliana, 36, who was met by Bernama after the MAIWP Syawal Baitulmal seminar here yesterday, said she started business from zero and her life began to change after receiving financial assistance from Baitulmal MAIWP in 2012.
“After my husband was involved in a road accident several years ago, the family faced financial problems and from there, I started sewing business and became a middleman selling clothing material at home.
“Then I applied for a financial aid from Baitulmal MAIWP in 2012 and with the help of a total of RM15,370, I gradually expanded my business until finally owning my own premises in Cheras,” she said, now able to generate up to RM10,000 a month.
Academic Icon Award recipient Nuryn Zhafaryna, 28, who is now a doctor, said that family life has never been an obstacle for her to achieve her goals.
“I received the Baitulmal Incentive Scholarship for Excellent Student from 2009 to 2016 and continued my studies at the University of Alexandria, Egypt but was disrupted due to riots in 2013.
“But I never gave up on finishing my studies and graduated in Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery, and now I am already working as UD43 category doctor in Selayang Hospital and has made my family and community proud,” she said.
MAIWP chairman Datuk Seri Syed Hussien Alhabshee said that since 2018, the MAIWP managed to produce 10 entrepreneurs with income of around RM4,000 to RM24,000 a month, and set the target to help 100 people achieve that next year.
All recipients of the award received a plaque, a certificate of appreciation and a RM1,000 cash awarded from Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Datuk Seri Dr Mujahid Yusof.
The event also celebrated about 500 other hardcore poor people around here, which was attended by Federal Territory Mufti Datuk Seri Dr Zulkifli Mohammad Al-Bakri and Federal Territory Islamic Religious Department director Mohd Ajib Ismail. – Bernama
