The executive committees of Male’ campus wings of MNUSU for the year 2020 have been inaugurated by the Registrar of Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) Mr. Ahmed Irash.

The ceremony to inaugurate Wings was held February 22, 2020, 8:30 p.m. at Central Administration (CA) auditorium of Maldives National University (MNU).

Vice Chancellor of MNU Dr. Mohamed Shareef and Maldives Transport and Contracting Company (MTCC)’s Chief Operating Officer (COO) Mr. Shahid Hussain Moosa joined Mr. Irash, who also is the senior policy director of Ministry of youth, sports, and community empowerment, as special invitees for the night.

The ceremony was commenced by the recitation of Holy Quran by student of Engineering, Science and Technology Ali Mushfiq Muhammad Shareef, followed by an introduction of the agenda for the function by student of Centre for Foundation Studies, Hawwa Lailaa Luthufee.

While Mr. Irash honored the Presidents of the wings with their certification of appointment, it was Dr. Shareef and Mr. Shahid who handed over the certificates to Vice Presidents (Academic) and Vice Presidents (Activities) respectively. Treasures got their post appointment from Mr. Hussain Haleem, the Deputy Vice Chancellor of MNU, while Mr. Abbas Mohamed, Deputy Director of Ministry of Home Affairs honored the Secretaries of the wings with their posts. However, it was DVC Ms. Aishath Shaheen who started the certificate hand over by inaugurating the Media Coordinators of the wings.

Abdulla Shahuneez, the Vice President (Wings) of MNUSU, stressed that their main target is to increase the number of leaders and to take a quality over quantity philosophy for their events.

President of MNUSU, Ali Shamoon, motivated the students who ran for the election but did not get elected for the posts that got appointed in the night. He noted that not getting elected should not be a barrier for academic works and that doors will always be opened for academic works.

Since 2018, MNUSU has been honoring the people who have been serving well for the organization in ceremonies such as this. Likewise, Athoof Athif the former President of THARAHA – the wing of MNUSU at CFS, was honored with the second highest honor of MNUSU, “Late Ahmed Abdulla Naseer memorial MNUSU Honorary Award”, during the ceremony.

A video report on MNUSU Futsal Fiesta, the biggest event of MNUSU, was shown in the ceremony before Dr. Shareef addressed the attendees mentioning that students have acknowledged the work of MNUSU and that the Union is an important factor in the progress of MNU.

Followed by, former President and the current member of the Advisory board of MNUSU, Mr. Arushad Ashraf, in his address, detailed on the difficulties he faced during his tenure back in 2018, stressing that he faced a lot of obstacles at the beginning of this work, the biggest one being going out there with a group of young adults. He went on further to state that, however, the image has changed and that the leading force of MNUSU is a young force, with their ages ranging between 17 to 21.

The last token for the ceremony was a speech by the Chief Guest of the ceremony, Mr. Irash, noting that MNUSU has the highest number of members in the Maldives and that the Union maintains a close relationship with the Ministry. In addition, he also exemplified MNUSU as a great organization who has set a bench mark for the other NGOs in the country.

A staggering 60 students of MNU were awarded their positions for the wings of MNUSU in this first ever formal ceremony of the organization in 2020.

Written by: Aminath Saahath,
MNUSU Media