UMP Launched Mygift Scholarship Award For Its Undergraduates

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Universiti Malaysia Pahang (UMP) launched its MyGift initiative which was the university's official endowment contribution platform.It was officially launched by his Royal Highness Sultan of Pahang Sultan Haji Ahmad Shah al-Musta’in Billah ibni Almarhum Sultan Abu Bakar Ri’ayatuddin al-Mu’adzam Shah at Mandarin Oriental Hotel here.

Also present were Her Royal Highness Sultanah of Pahang Sultanah Hajah Kalsom and His Highness Tengku Mahkota of Pahang Tengku Abdullah al-Haj ibni Sultan Haji Ahmad Shah al-Musta’in Billah.

Eleven UMP undergraduates received the Student Scholarship Endowment worth RM400,000, an education incentive introduced this year and given to new, deserving undergraduates.

According to UMP Vice Chancellor Professor Dato’ Dr. Daing Nasir Ibrahim, the MyGift initiative was a strategic response to the Ministry of Higher Education's call for public universities to explore more intensively on the prospects in endowment and wakaf for higher education and for this to be done with the cooperation of government agencies, corporate bodies and religious councils in states.