Iftar and Dinner with the Examinees

As a concluding event of the bar operations, AMAL hosted the

"AMAL POST BAR GATHERING: Iftar and Dinner with the Muslim Examinees"

last September 23 at the new SWEEPSTEAK Resturant fronting De La Salle University.

Opening Dua led by Mr. Nomaire Madid of the Mindanao State University

Dean Basari Mapupuno with bar candidates.

Meeting students form Notre Dame University of Cotabato City

Examinees from Ateneo de Davao and Philippine Law School

Ms Amihilda Sangcopan delivers a talk on behald of Anak Mindanao (AMIN)

TOYM Awardee Samira Gutoc of Arellano University shares her experience

Amina Rasul-Bernardo, Lead Convenor of the Philippine Council for Islam and Democracy (PCID)

Atty Baratucal Caudang, Remedial Law professor from MSU

AMAL Members pose after the event
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Friday Prayer in Arellano

Muslim bar candidates enrolled in the Arellano Bar Review Program

requested for the holding of the Friday congregational prayer in the AUSL campus.

Alhamdulillah, the AUSL Administration readily allowed the use of the AUSL Mock Court.

meeting up with friends

The AMAL Bar Operations also served as a venue where new friendships were made and old friends and schoolmates were reunited. Here, Muslim Students' Association members from Emilio Aguinaldo College, Philippine Women's University and the University of the Philippines meet during the Post Bar Gathering.

AMAL Sec Gen Anna Farina visits former schoolmates from Xavier University

MSU law students from different batches join Dean Basari Mapupuno

Lunch Distribution

Waiting for the examinees near the Quirino exit.


Ready to distribute at the MSU tent.



Ms. Amie Sangcopan, Rep. Hataman's Chief of Staff, gives her instructions at the AMIN tent.

Preparing, transporting and handing meals were the main tasks during daytime.

Headquarters: a place to...

eat ...

discuss strategies ...

... and rest (of course).

Indeed, without our headquarters,

sponsored by the families of

Mayor Datu Saudi Shamrun Ampatuan

and Governor Datu Zaldy Ampatuan,

our bar operations would not have been as successful.

MUSLAF

Atty. Karim Panumpang, President of the Muslim Legal Assistance Foundation (MUSLAF), is not only a major sponsor of the our bar operations.

He also contributed many ideas and moral support for its realization.

In this picture taken during the first AMAL assembly last April 1, 2007, he was sharing his experience and encouraging AMAL members to push through with a bar operations project.

It's Year 5 for AMIN

September 2007 marks the fifth year

of Anak Mindanao's presence in the Bar Site.

Since 2003, it has been giving food and other assistance

for the Mindanaon bar examinees.

For its support for the AMAL Bar Operations,

it pledged at least 50 meals per Sunday

and shared its tent with the AMAL bar operators