Datin Miriam Mohd Yusoff Sustainable Governance Endowment Chair

In US Universities, there have been a lot of gift to Universities to endow a chair or donation towards the endowment.

This rarely happens in Malaysia, but when I read the newspaper this morning, it brighthened my day, to know that a fellow Malaysian has donated RM1 Million to UKM to endow a chair called Datin Miriam Mohd Yusoff Sustainable Governance Endowment Chair at the university’s Institute for Environment and Development (Lestari).

Full quotation from The Star is below.


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SEREMBAN: In keeping his promise to his father, businessman Datuk Ghazali Mohd Yusoff has donated RM1mil to Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) in her honour.

The Nusantara Technologies Sdn Bhd executive chairman said yesterday he was fulfilling a pledge to his father Datuk Mohamed Yusoff Ahmad, to take good care of his mother, Datin Miriam Mohd Yusoff.

“Before my father died in 1985, he told me to look after my mother. He also said I must share what Allah has given us with others,” he said in his speech during a ceremony to hand over the cheque to UKM Chancellor Yang di-Pertuan Besar of Negri Sembilan Tuanku Ja’afar at Istana Hinggap here.

Miriam presented the cheque to Tuanku Ja'afar.

The donation was also done in conjunction with her 88th birthday, which fell on May 15.

The money will go towards the setting up of the Datin Miriam Mohd Yusoff Sustainable Governance Endowment Chair at the university’s Institute for Environment and Development (Lestari).

Lestari was set up in 1994 as a multidisciplinary institute to serve as a reference centre dealing with environmental and development issues.




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