We in Viva Palestine Malaysia (VPM) and Muslim Professionals Forum (MPF) have known al-Hafiz Dr Fadi since he began his PhD studies in University Malaya in 2011.

He is undoubtedly an academic scholar of distinction, a genius really. He won the Ivy League, Yayasan Khazanah-VPM scholarship for his PhD studies in 2013. Three years later in August 2016, he received both the Special Mention Award and High Achiever Award, at the Yaysan Khazanah Scholarship, 10th Anniversary, presented by the Prime Minister of Malaysia. This is apart from the many other honours and prizes for his scholastic excellence.

And within a year of working as a senior electrical engineering lecturer in UNIKL, he won a research grant from the Malaysian government and was supervising 3 postgraduate engineering students. His work and research in electrical engineering and power electronics have been widely published in the top tier engineering journals.

He has memorized the Quran since childhood and is distinguished among the few who holds the Sanad Riwayat Shu’bah and Hafs from Aasim. He has taught the recitation rules of the Holy Quran with Tajweed for the past 13 years.

He has led Terawih prayers in Palestine for 6 years and in Malaysia for the past 5 years. He was awarded first place in the Sixth International Postgraduate Al-Quran Competition, Malaysia, 2015. His Quranic prowess has been duly recognized world wide and in Malaysia he holds the “Tauliah Mengajar & Berceramah” Wilayah Persekutuan.”

Despite his brilliance and multiple achievements, Fadi remained a very humble person, soft spoken, thoughtful and contemplative. He has always led our Muslim Professionals Forum (MPF) & Viva Palestina Malaysia (VPM) annual Terawih prayer for the past few years. He has been very active in various platforms, including VPM, Boycott Divestment & Sanctions (BDS) and Palestinian Students Organisations in Malaysia to advance the cause for justice and peace for Palestine.

His wife, Enas F. has similarly obtained her Masters in Islamic Studies from University Malaya and they are blessed with 3 children, Doaa Fadi, Aseel Fadi and Muhammad Fadi.

It has been a short 35 years, with a tragic demise but an unequivocally blessed life in the service of Allah and His Deen. May he be blessed bountifully with His Highest Gardens of Paradise in Jannatul Firdaus. And may Allah confer patience and forbearance to his family and the Palestinian community upon this great loss of their Palestinian son.

Dato’ Dr Musa Mohd Nordin
Chairman, Viva Palestina Malaysia (VPM)

Tuan Haji Yuzaidi Yusoff
Chairman, Muslim Professionals Forum (MPF)

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Yayasan Khazanah Scholarship Special Mention & High Achiever Awards, August 2016

With Mufti Wilayah Persekutuan Datuk Dr Zulkifli Mohamad Al-Bakri

We would like to thank all our donors who contributed towards this Poor Family Box.
It has help many poor families cope with their day to day living.

Project: Scholarships for Palestinian students
Funded By: Viva Palestina Malaysia
Supervised By: Gaza Destek Association
Implemented By: Educational Forum
In cooperation with: Islamic University of Gaza - IUG and University College for Applied Science.
Targeted Area: Gaza Strip.
Beneficiaries: 60 students.

1. Education is one of VPM’s 4 strategic objectives. It has taken up 35% (RM4.5 million) of our funding to Palestine.

2. In 2013, VPM refurbished 11 schools in Palestine, costing RM1.7 million.

3. The Khazanah Asia (Palestine) Scholarship program was mooted in collaboration with VPM and began in 2013. This equivalent of an Ivy League scholarship now funds 5-6 Palestinian student from Gaza, West Bank and the Diaspora every year.

4. Very few if any NGO provide aid to students to continue with their tertiary education. VPM began our scholarship program for needy students in 8 universities in Gaza from 2014 with an initial funding of RM300,000 provided by Khazanah Nasional. This program has continued every year and a total of 1,600 scholarships has been disbursed.

5. VPM’s 6th KL Palestine Film Festival on 10 Dec 2017, raised more funds for scholarship program.

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Field visits for Micro projects that supported by Viva Palestina Malaysia.

Since 2009 Viva Palestina Malaysia supported more than 80 of micro projects in Gaza Strip by giving small loans for poor families, these projects changed the life for benefited families and increased their incomes and gave them the chanced for depending on themselves instead of depending of humanitarian helps.

Where in 2017 unemployment rate reached to 41.7% in general and among youth it reached 66.8%, poverty rate 65%, deep poverty 30%, the rate of lack and absent in food security 72%, the huge increasing in the number of graduated students per year, all of these reasons guide us to work more and focus on supporting these kinds of micro projects by providing work chances through enabling unemployed persons from start micro projects by using micro loans system (Halal).

Only try to draw smiles :)

Thank you Viva Palestina Malaysia for giving us this chance.

Distributing some winter clothes and gifts for sick children in Europe hospital in Khanuness - south of Gaza Strip.

Project No. (10/2017)
Rehabilitation poor families’ homes.
Funded By: Viva Palestina Malaysia VPM
Implemented By: Rowad Society For Social Development.

Project Description: The project aimed to rehabilitate 10 houses for poor families in Gaza Strip in order to protect them from winter cold and rainfall, by providing USD (1000) as average for each house.

Targeted Group: 10 of poor families in Gaza Strip.

Our deep thanks for VPM donors who contributed in helping these families and protected them from winter rainfall and cold, but more than 4892 of poor families are waiting for rehabilitate their house to fit with minimal standards of adequate housing that stated in human rights laws, any contribution can make the different for these poor families in Gaza Strip.

For more details you can watch following video that shows some of project activities.

Viva Palestina Malaysia and our partner from the UK, One Life Global joint project of drilling well and establishing desalination station to provide drinkable water for Palestinian families in Beit Hanoun City - north of Gaza Strip, this project will enable more than 10,000 persons to drink sweet and clean water, where latest statistics show the Gaza Strip suffers from a high percentage of water pollution that makes more than 95% of water undrinkable.

Meeting with Khaled Abu Samra who runs the Charitable Association for Palestinian Relief, our partner for milk distribution and regular mobile clinics at Palestinian camps in Syria. These are small but crucial projects and every medical week serves over 1,000 residents who live under siege and have no access to medicines or medical care. Please continue to donate so we can keep these projects going.

Over the last week of September, Viva Palestina Malaysia with our partner in Syria, the Charitable Association for Palestian Relief, distributed 1000 cans of baby milk to refugees around Damascus who still live under harsh conditions, in Yarmouk, Khan Eshieh and Qudsiya.

Inshaa Allah we will also be conducting our 7th weeklong mobile clinic to serve the besieged residents of Yarmouk soon.

Eid Adha Mubarak! For the poorest families in Gaza, this is one of the rare times they can eat meat.

Alhamdulillah this year we have distributed meat to over 2500 families in need with the qurban of 8 cows and 14 sheep for Gaza, as well as a cow and 5 sheep for the Palestinian refugees at Yarmouk in Syria. Jazakalllah khairan to all donors including those who donated through the UK NGO One Life Global Welfare , and to Hani Thraya for your hard work organising the Gaza project from purchase to sacrifice to distributing the meat.

Alhamdulillah

Despite the higher price of animals in Gaza due to the 10 year siege, the animals are bigger than ours.

Average weight of cow - 550 kg
Sheep - 60 kg

Engineer Hani Thuraya our VPM rep has bought 7 cows & 11 sheep for Qurban 2017/1438

May Allah accept our Qurban for the poor & needy in Palestine, the land of the Abiya' (prophets) & Syuhada' (martyrs)

Pictures showing Preparation for Qurban for Palestine.

Final ceremony for project No. (28/2017)
Enjoy and learn swimming.
Funded By: Viva Palestina Malaysia - VPM
Supervised By: Rowad Society for social development.
Implemented By: North Gaza Culture Center.

Activities: Friday (28/08/2017)
- Final competitions between best trainees.
- Distribution gifts and motivations for winners.
- Trainees' graduation.
- Giving advice by Naval Police for trainees about safe swimming.
- Enjoying in free swimming at final day of camp.
- Drawing smiles on Palestinian children faces.

Our great thanks for all donors who contributed in this project, may Allah reward you.