Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Introduction - Global Ukhuwah


Global Ukhuwah is an expedition whereby a group of students will be visiting other countries. Therefore, an initiative has been taken by Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS (UTP) to organize this kind of expedition for the first time in the university. A group of 10 students have been selected who are willing to give their fullest commitment into turning this programme a success.
The students will have to undergoes a lot of preparation especially in generating funds for the activities throughout the days in the selected country. It is a journey where the participants will learn about different cultures, languages, food and most importantly, the practice of Islam there. 


Objectives of having such expedition are :

  • As a platform for event organizers to identify and recognize talents of UTP students.
  • Build strong collaboration relationship between Malaysia higher institutions and oversea higher institutions.
  • To learn about the practice of Islam in other countries.
  • To learn other languages and culture of Islamic society in other countries.
  • To get know other Muslims in other countries.
  • To learn by ourselves on how to organize international trips.
  • To give the experiences to the students on how to generate income by themselves.
  • Introduce UTP internationally.
  • To comply with university’s mission :
  • “…provide opportunities for the pursuit of knowledge and expertise for the advancement of engineering, science and technology to enhance the nation’s competitiveness….to produce well-rounded graduates who are creative and innovative…aim is to nurture creativity and innovativeness and expand the frontiers of technology and education”
  • UTP’s Mission
Since this is for the first time, we have chosen Hong Kong and China as our pioneer countries. With the hopes that after this, there will be more programme of this kind will be organized by students of UTP.

"GLOBAL UKHUWAH 1 : HONG KONG/CHINA"