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马佛基金会及马佛青代表与受惠大专生合影。
Group photo of beneficiaries and representatives of YBBM and YBAM.
2020/2021年度

高等教育奖助学金颁奖礼

2020/2021 Tertiary Education

Grant Award Ceremony

马来西亚佛教发展基金会于2021年2月27日在线上举办“2020/2021年度高等教育奖助学金”颁发礼，颁发6万
7000令吉大专奖助学金予67位大专生。全马各地有超过80位大专佛青领袖与学生参与这项仪式。

马来西亚佛教发展基金会主席拿督洪祖丰在会上致词时说，此届奖助学金于2020年9月开放接受申请，并接获
25所大专院校128位大专生申请。经过一次线上面试及两次筛选，67位大专生申请获批，每人获得1000令吉。

他以佛教典籍《增一阿含》的一段话：“世上有两种人最难得，一种是懂得施恩的人，一种是懂得感恩的人”，
鼓励受惠学生除了要学会感恩，也要化为行动，在未来继续参与佛教工作，积极推广利惠大众的社会活动。

马来西亚佛教发展基金会董事薛振荣则表示马来西亚佛教发展基金会从1985年推动高等教育奖助学金计划至
今，已资助了498位大专生，发放近50万令吉的金额。

Yayasan Belia Buddhist Malaysia (YBBM) organised the ‘2020/2021 Tertiary Education Grant Award’ Ceremony
online on 27th February 2021, awarding tertiary education grants worth RM 67,000 to 67 varsity students. More
than 80 university Buddhist youth leaders and students from all over Malaysia participated in this ceremony.

YBBM Chairperson Dato’ Ang Choo Hong said in his speech that the education grant was open for application
in September 2020 and received 128 applicants from 25 tertiary institutions. After an online interview and two
screening sessions, applications from 67 university students were approved, and each of them received RM
1,000.

He cited a passage from the Buddhist text ‘Ekottaragama-sutra’: ‘There are two types of people in the world
who are most rare: those who know how to provide favour and those who know how to be grateful’. He
encouraged the benefitted students to learn to be grateful and to convert gratitude into action by continuing
to participate in Buddhist work in the future and actively promoting social activities that benefit the public.

YBBM Director Sek Chin Yong said that since 1985, YBBM has been promoting the Tertiary Education Grant
programme and has supported 498 tertiary students with an amount of nearly RM 500,000.