Educational Hearten Camp 2011 (EDC)

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MISI Club will organized a programme called Educational Hearten Camp which will be held on 8th July until 10th July 2011 at SMKA Sandakan, Sandakan, Sabah. The objectives of this programme are to raise the students’ awareness on the importance of nurturing Islamic teaching in one’s self, to enlighten the importance of using and learning English language in their future undertakings, to turn out students with better performance in both English and empower good attitude in line with Islam and to enlighten the student with a life after school. Below are some introduction regrading this programme.

English has become the language of communication by most people in this world. Our university also applies English as its first official language in campus. English is used widely in many different aspects; including business, entertainment, education as well as in preaching the religion. Since we are living in a multicultural country; there is the need for us to excel not only in our native language but in other language too, particularly in English language. This is very important in our mission as Islam in preaching others because we are dealing with various kinds of people i.e. Chinese, Indian, and other different ethnics who do not use the same medium like us.

Pertaining to that, MISI has taken the initiative to organize “EDUCATIONAL HEARTEN CAMP” which flatters the importance of both English and Da’wah in its mission. “Hearten” means to raise your spirits. This programme aims at enhancing the students’ fortitude and audacity to explore the beauty knowledge about Islam and the use of English. The uniqueness of this programme is that we combine both English and Islamic knowledge together into our methodology. This is actually a continuation series of “English and Da’wah Camp or END”. The previous two series of END were succeed and showed the positive impact. Hence now, with our strong will, we come out with an idea to continue this project to the third series but with a different name. For this time, MISI Club and inviting facilitator among IIUM students will collaborate to organize this program.

The theme is “Inculcating the Preaching through English, Flourishing the Beauty of Knowledge” means that English is one of the medium used in preaching. Apart from that, both knowledged in Islamic essentials and English are used and applied together as to give the produce students with better and balance knowledge on both. The reason to conduct this programme is to share the experience of da’wah in Sabah with other university instead of having IIUM students. Hopefully, this will widen the concept of da’wah and English enhancement skills among IIUM community in particular and the Muslims in general.