Da’wah Exploration in Sarawak (DESA 10) : Activities and Programmes

During our 10 days trip to Sarawak, many activities and programmes had been conducted with the villagers. Alhamdulillah, everything that been planned had been conducted smoothly by the committees that strive for this programme. May Allah bestows His bless upon all of you. This post will explain to you everything that we had done. Happy reading! =)

PROGRAMMES

1. SURVEY OF THE VILLAGE ENVIRONMENT

Demography survey is one of the methods that were role to collect all details information about the village condition, including the total of the family members, fundamental of Islamic knowledge, economic and the infrastructure as reference. In fact, it was also organized in order to analyze an improving the next follow-up programme.

2. VISITING THE VILLAGERS

Visiting the villagers was held to close up the villagers as well as introducing an informing them about this programme. Besides that, is was also planned to do SWOT analysis regarding with the potential of da’wah activity in the village in order to plan the effective methods during programme.

3. REZEKI PAGI

Through this kind of programme, all the students will stay with their foster family to learn and gain an experience about the daily activities of the villagers. As we know, the majority of the villagers from this 3 villages working as a fisherman, hunter, farmer, and a paddy planter. Therefore, “Rezeki Pagi” activity was given a great opportunity to the students to learn about stay as 1 community and also grabbing the values from each of their experience.

4. RELIGIOUS CLASS

Religious class consists of Al-Quran recitation and Fardu ain class that was conducted special for the villagers. The implementation of this activity was really systematic and effective according to the flexibility among the villagers. A group of students had used so many kinds of material that was prepared by an experience module team based on valuable module.

5. ACADEMIC MOTIVATIONAL PROGRAMME

Academic motivation session includes the extra classes which is based on the level of the students whether they are amateur or the beginner. This programme conducted for the primary and secondary school that is focused on “Strive for Excellent” to the children, teenagers and also the adults. In order to make it more effective, all the students had been divided into a group which each group handled a group of the villagers based on the efficient module.

6. “GOTONG-ROYONG” ACTIVITY

This session involved all the students and the villagers to cooperate on the cleanliness programme to clean the environment of the village. In another words, the students are also get a chance to evaluate the cleanliness and environment campaign among the villagers.

7. MELANTAK MEJA CEREMONY

“Melantak Meja” is one of our main activities where, all students and the villagers were prepared the traditional menu together. This kind of activity could be the best platform for the students to close up their bonding with the villagers.

8. TAZKIRAH

This method was carrying on after performing subh and magrib congregational prayer. The objective is to give a spiritual understanding to the villagers and the students themselves. Informatively, every session of the Tazkirah will be delivered by each of the students.

ACTIVITIES

1. Discussion with community leaders was one of the initial methods as a respectful to the underprivileged community. Through discussion, we had introduced about the purpose and nature of our programme. Moreover, the discussion was attended by the community leaders of the 3 villages including a few da’I from HIKMAH.

Discussion started with welcoming speech by the community leaders or “Tuai Rumah”. They are welcoming all the participants and had said on behalf of the villagers that, they are very happy that the village has been quiet considered by many parties to provide hand-in-hand facilitation. They were also very proud to see many students, particularly the youngsters, were willing to share experience with the villagers.

Therefore, all of the participants were expressed their gratitude upon the programme and reminding themselves on their intention during the programme. Interestingly, they were also told us about the problems for each of the village in term of facilities, infrastructure and conflicts among the villagers.

2. Foster Family was one of the activities that held to teach and approach the participants to close up with the mualaf community. Minority, they wasted a lot of families. So, they do not get the love and attention that enough of a family activities for the community aims to foster a sense of togetherness and kinship society that cares and sensitive issues to become a Muslim. It is expected that other community members will give a positive appreciation, so that discrimination against minority groups could be minimized.

3. Distribution of donation items was held during closing ceremony on the 3 villages. All distribution had been divided into 3 parts which consist of Kg. Gayau, Kg. Gawang and Kg. Ruan. Moreover, this activity was conducted by participants according to the result on the survey which will be given to the family members and income.

However, we were also allocated some of the donation and sponsorship for a certain activity such as “Melantak Meja” and “Spiritual Night”. In fact we proceed the other donation with distribution of medicine for the villagers. Meanwhile, all books, Al-Quran, and the praying materials were used during academic and religious class.

4. Academic module was focused on the children and the teenagers. During the activity, all the children were thought about 3M which is consist of reading, writing, and calculating. In order to make it more effective. They had been divided into 2 major groups between 6-8 years old and 9-12 years old based on their skills, either they can read or not. Basically, participants were divided into 2 teams as a facilitator to teach the children on mathematics and alphabet.

5. Imam Muda Reality Programme is one of the programme that organized to teach and approach the villagers to be a good Imam. Here we were show and guide them on how to recite Al-Quran correctly. Moreover, we were also tutoring the teenagers and the adults group on how to perform Friday prayer, Maksum Fatihah and the practical way of khutbah presentation. This activity was conducted by One of the officer Ust. Zunaidin, and the other 3 students; Bro. Razali, Faiz, Shaufiq and Asyraf.

6. A Day of Motivational Programme (Focus on “Strive for Excellent”)

During programme, we had been divided into 2 groups; group 1 was conducting the students in standard 1 up until standard 3. While, the second group was organizing a flexible module for standard 4 up until standard 6.

This programme was organized to improve their academic performance since they will be sitting for the “Ujian Penilaian Sekolah Rendah” (UPSR) in the end of the year.

Our methodology was :

1. Group binding
2. Talk regarding to the techniques of effective studies
3. E– Teaching “Video Show”