LATAR BELAKANG YAYASAN HARAPAN

Background of the Yayasan

Yayasan Harapan atau dahulunya dikenali sebagai Yayasan Muwaffaq diperbadankan sebagai sebuah Yayasan Amanah dibawah Akta Pemegang Amanah (Diperbadankan) 1952 (Akta 258) berdaftar di Jabatan Perdana Menteri Malaysia pada tahun 1995.

Yayasan Harapan ditubuhkan oleh dua orang pengasas iaitu:

(1) Dr. Wan Mohd Hasni Wan Sulaiman and

(2) Dr. Abdul Rahim Md Ghouse.

Yayasan Harapan pada mulanya dibiayai oleh Tabung Waqf dari Timur Tengah.

Di antara aktiviti awal Yayasan ialah memberikan bantuan kewangan kepada lebih kurang 20 orang pelajar dari Bosnia Herzegovina yang sedang melanjutkan pelajaran mereka di Universiti Islam Antarabangsa, Kuala Lumpur pada tahun 1997 – 1998.

Ini diikuti dengan beberapa aktiviti disekitar pendidikan dan latihan di kalangan masyarakat terpinggir di Malaysia, Selatan Thailand dan Filipina.

Di Selatan Thailand, Yayasan telah menghulurkan bantuan kewangan kepada Maahad Nurul Islam di Sungai Golok, Thailand di bawah kelolaan Pengerusi dan Pemegang Amanah baru bagi Yayasan iaitu Yg Bhg Dato Dr. Hj. Ismail Mohamad. Kini sekolah agama rakyat tersebut mendidik seramai lebih 200 orang pelajar sekolah menengah. Yg Bhg Dato juga adalah penaung kepada program tahunan pengagihan beras percuma kepada masyarakat luar bandar di Selatan Filipina sejak tahun 2005.

Manakala di Somaliland pula Yayasan telah melancarkan projek Ezy Qurban untuk mengagihkan daging Qurban semasa perayaan Eidul Adha sejak tahun 2012. Projek tersebut dicetuskan oleh Pemegang Amanah yang juga Timbalan Pengerusi Yayasan Harapan yang baru dilantik, Dato’ Ir. Hj Abdul Aziz Mustafa.

Di Negara China pula Encik Wan Izzuddin Sulaiman, Pemegang Amanah yang juga baru dilantik telah mencetuskan program hubungan dua hala bertujuan menjalin silaturrahim dan jalinan perdagangan di antara kaum etnik Hui dengan ahli-hali akademik dan perniagaan dari Malaysia. Yayasan telah membiaya sebahagian dari kos delegasi dari Malaysia ke Negara China pada tahun 2012 untuk menghadiri First International Halal Bio Summit di Lanzhou City, Gansu Province.

Yayasan Harapan or previously known as Yayasan Muwaffaq was incorporated as a Trustee Foundation under the Trustees (Incorporation) Act 1952 (Act 258) registered by the Prime Minister Department of Malaysia in 1995.

The Yayasan was founded by two individuals:

(1) Dr. Wan Mohd Hasni Wan Sulaiman and

(2) Dr. Abdul Rahim Md Ghouse.

The Yayasan was originally funded by a Waqf fund from the Middle East.

The first activity of the Yayasan was to provide financial assistant to about 20 students from Bosnia Herzegovina pursuing their tertiary education at the International Islamic University, Kuala Lumpur in 1997-1998.

This was followed by several activities surrounding education and training for the under-served communities in Malaysia, Southern Thailand and the Philippines.

In Southern Thailand, the Yayasan has been providing financial assistance to the Maahad Nurul Islam located in Sungai Golok, Thailand, under its newly appointed Chairman and Trustee Dato Dr. Hj Ismail Mohamad. The private religious school is currently providing education to around more than 200 secondary level school children. Yg Bhg Dato has also been the patron for the annual program for the distribution of free rice among the rural communities in the Southern Philippines since 2005.

While in Somaliland, The Yayasan has initiated an Ezy Qurban project to distribute the annual qurban meat during the Eidul Adha celebration since 2012. The Project was initiated by our newly appointed Trustee and Deputy Chairman of the Yayasan, Dato’ Ir. Aziz Mustafa.

In China, The Yayasan has initiated a networking program meant to connect the Muslim communities from the ethnic Hui with Malaysian academics and businessmen. The Yayasan partly sponsored the trip of the Malaysian delegates to China in 2012 to participate in the First International Halal Bio Summit in Lanzhou City, Gansu Province.