NORTH SUMATRA – Dompet Dhuafa North Sumatra Branch (DD Waspada) handed over achievement assistance to 4 (four) outstanding students at the Faculty of Dentistry, University of North Sumatra (USU), on Thursday (2/2/2023). Symbolically, this scholarship assistance was handed over by the Head of the Dompet Dhuafa Waspada Sulaiman Branch to the Deputy Dean I of FKG USU, Dr. drg. Olivia Avriyanti Hanafiah, Sp. BM (K) in Nazir Alwi’s room.
To Dompet Dhuafa Waspada, drg. Olivia expressed her gratitude for the assistance given to FKG USU students. The students proposed by USU are said to have experienced problems, namely difficulty completing their studies due to economic problems. Finally, after going through the assessment process, as many as four selected students received assistance (scholarship).
“As at the beginning, we asked our students who had difficulty completing their studies because of the cost, thank God, there were four people who were selected based on the selection of Dompet Dhuafa Waspada,” he said.
Furthermore, says drg. Olivia and the staffs hope that in the future, students at FKG USU who are constrained by costs can get educational scholarship assistance from Dompet Dhuafa Waspada.
“Because completing studies in dentistry requires a high cost, from undergraduate education to professions, we hope this can continue,” said drg. Olivia.
Following this, the Head of the Dompet Dhuafa Waspada Branch also agreed to the opportunity for scholarship sustainability. Dompet Dhuafa Waspada provides scholarship opportunities for USU students with a quota of 10 beneficiaries per year.
“Dompet Dhuafa Waspada provides this scholarship opportunity to USU students with a quota of 10 people per year for the beginning,” said Sulaiman.
He also expressed his hope that the number of quotas could increase. “If the more auto-debit zakat of USU lecturers is distributed through Dompet Dhuafa Waspada, more students will be able to be helped from the zakat fund,” he continued.
It is known that currently, USU lecturers are participating in distributing their zakat through Dompet Dhuafa Waspada through an auto-debit program that is deducted every month. Regarding this scholarship assistance, Sulaiman expressed hope to the beneficiaries.
“Hopefully, this assistance can ease the burden on our younger students and increase the enthusiasm to complete their studies,” he said.
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Being present at the handover, Juli Hafriyanti Dalimunthe, one of the scholarship recipients, admitted that she did not expect to receive assistance.
“While completing this study, I had been thinking hard about how to ask for more money to pay for study fees while my parents were only pensioners in the village,” he said.
Juli also expressed his gratitude for the help he received. “Through Dompet Dhuafa Waspada, it turns out that Allah sent the assistance; thank you to the lecturers who are donators for scholarships and thank you, Dompet Dhuafa Waspada; hopefully, they will always be given blessings,” he concluded. (Dompet Dhuafa/DDW)