{"id":7810,"date":"2010-09-03T00:00:45","date_gmt":"2010-09-03T00:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/?page_id=7810"},"modified":"2015-05-14T00:02:41","modified_gmt":"2015-05-14T00:02:41","slug":"tithes-help-ukm-students-in-need-of-financial-support","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/archive\/year-2010\/september-2010\/tithes-help-ukm-students-in-need-of-financial-support\/","title":{"rendered":"Tithes help UKM students in need of financial support"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main \"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">0<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ukm.my%2Fnews%2Farchive%2Fyear-2010%2Fseptember-2010%2Ftithes-help-ukm-students-in-need-of-financial-support%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/?p=7810&amp;via=https:\/\/twitter.com\/ukmtwit\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-toggle-container\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/images\/stories\/Campus_News_Picture\/bendahari.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>FRIDAY, 03 SEPTEMBER 2010 17:33<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>By Abdul Razak Hussin<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">BANGI, 3 September, 2010 \u2013 The UKM Tithes Endowment Fund (Tazukm) has given out a total of RM746,430 to 1,175 of its poor and needy students this year up to August.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nTazukm has been appointed as assistant tithes collector for the Selangor Tithes Board since Dec 2005 managing payments of tithes of UKM staff through monthly deductions as well as over the counter payments or by cheques.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nIts Chairman, Mohd Abd Rashid Mohd Fadzil,who is also UKM\u2019S Bursar said a total of 1,213 UKM staff are paying their zakat totalling RM194,000 a month through Tazukm. In addition a number of corporate bodies and others are also paying their zakat through Tazukm from time to time.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nMohd Abd Rashid \u00a0said this at an Appreciation and Breaking of Fast \u00a0at Puri Pujangga here last night. He said Tazukm is always willing to help students in need of financial assistance.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nWith the availability of such assistance there should not be any excuse by UKM students of slacking in their studies due to financial difficulties, Mohd Abd Rashid\u00a0said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nHe said that help can be rendered to such students on a continuous basis from the zakat collected from the staffs of UKM as well as contributions from corporate bodies channeled through Tazukm.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nThe corporate bodies feted included MayBank Islamic Berhad, Bank Islam Malaysia Berhad, the Government Officers Housing Company, the Kolej Islam Malaysia Trustees and the Selangor Zakat Board.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nAt the function several poor students and those who are converts were given cash assistance from the various corporations.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nMohd Abd Rashid \u00a0said collection and ditribution of the zakat were being done above board according to the guidelines and criteria set by the Selangor Zakat Board. Representatives of the Board were also consulted in the operations.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nFinancial assistance managed by Tazukm includes payments of fees and\/or cost of living of the students, medical treatment and emergencies as well as financing some activities of the student bodies.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nMohd Abd Rashid \u00a0while thanking the corporate bodies hope others would also contribute to Tazukm.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/images\/stories\/Icon\/ukmnewsportal.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FRIDAY, 03 SEPTEMBER 2010 17:33 By Abdul Razak Hussin BANGI, 3 September, 2010 \u2013 The UKM Tithes Endowment Fund (Tazukm)<a class=\"tukm-readmore\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/archive\/year-2010\/september-2010\/tithes-help-ukm-students-in-need-of-financial-support\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7811,"parent":1404,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-7810","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7810"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7812,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7810\/revisions\/7812"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1404"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}