BOGOR — Asy-Syahid Boarding School channeled humanitarian donations through Dompet Dhuafa at the Asy-Syahid Festival Days (Afesta) event, Tuesday (20/12/2022). Donations were collected from the sale of Afesta event t-shirts, of which 100% of the profits were donated to Cianjur earthquake victims.
Afesta is one of the festival activities in order to close teaching and learning activities in the first semester of the 2022 academic year. This Afesta event was organized by displaying several performances that had been prepared and presented by Asy-Syahid Boarding School students. Theperformances include memorizing the book Tuhfathul Athfal along with the sound of marawis or hadroh musical instruments, painting with limited time, choir, chain poetry and other artistic performances that are full of joy after passing the semester assessment day.
On the sidelines of the Afesta event, Asy-Syahid school prayed for the people of Cianjur who were hit by an earthquake on November 21, 2022. The earthquake has caused many houses, schools and public facilities to be destroyed so that they cannot be used again. As a form of concern, Asy-Syahid Boarding School raised donations through the sale of Afesta event t-shirts where 100% of the profits were donated to Cianjur earthquake victims.
Harlin Misnawati, S.Pi. M. Pd as a representative of Asy-Syahid Boarding School said, from the sale of event t-shirts, donations for cianjur earthquake victims amounting to Rp 17,163,000 (seventeen million one hundred sixty-three thousand rupiah) were successfully collected. Afesta chose Dompet Dhuafa as an organization that is concerned with humanitarianism, as the distributor of this donation.
“We chose Dompet Dhuafa as an organization that concentrates on humanity, as our donation channel. Hopefully the donations we have collected can help ease the difficulties for victims of the earthquake disaster. We also thank Dompet Dhuafa for being a trusted humanitarian organization in channeling the mandate we give, “he said.
Dompet Dhuafa on the day of the earthquake, responded to the field to evacuate the location assisted by the Cordofa Da’I Team and set up emergency tents for victims by the Dompet Dhuafa DMC team. In addition, Dompet Dhuafa also helped by providing a public kitchen, fulfilling nutrition for the victims and First Aid Psychology for children affected by the Cianjur earthquake with the hope that the little friends who were there still got their joy back.
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Neng Nadiyya Syaima as Dompet Dhuafa’s School Network Officer said that Dompet Dhuafa would like to thank the students, teachers and guardians of Asy-Syahid Boarding School for their participation in helping the Cianjur earthquake victims. He then emphasized that the mandate that had been given would be delivered to the right target beneficiaries.
“Hopefully what has been given will be a reward, be a blessing and make it easier for students to study, and make Asy-Syahid Boarding School students who are pious and pious, and hopefully in the current Humanitarian Action collaboration will not be the first and last, but will be an extension of Dompet Dhuafa and school friendship in the future,” he concluded. (Dompet Dhuafa)