Maulana Waqar Younus despite being visually impaired, travels around schools in Pakistan to teach the blind Quran. He recently started the Braille Resource Foundation so that they can start to produce braille Qurans for Pakistan.
In the meantime , Alfitrah Foundation under our Braille Quran Initiative , has been sending him braille Qurans to meet the severe shortage.
We have 2 projects this Ramadan to help the blind :
One is the braille Quran summer camp for the students of the Light and Hope School in Gaza ( see poster in earlier post below)
The second one is the Ramadan Iftar program for the 44 students of AlBasiir School for the Blind in Somalia. It costs RM12 ( USD3) to provide a child with suhoor and iftar daily.
We would like to feature a child everyday from the school, please donate to this program via our website www.alfitrah.net stating whether you are donating for Gaza Quran camp or Somalia iftar.
We sent 4 Braille Qurans to Maulana Qazi Muzammil Mujibuddin of the Rahman Foundation in India , who is also a fellow member of the International Union of Braille Quran Services.
Blind children in Gaza do not have classes to learn Quran at school so the summer camp is the time they come to learn and memorise the Quran. Please donate to the program and contact us for more details. The cost for each child is USD200 to cover 3 months of teaching but you can contribute any amount however small. We started with 12 children in 2012 and it has grown so popular we have 60 students applying to join this year Alhamdulillah
Maulana Ubaidur Rahman Qasmi, Managing Director & Editor-in-Chief of Muallim, muslim lifestyle magazine based in India has visited IBQS. Hindistan'da yayın yapan Muallim dergisi Genel Yayın Yönetmeni ve baş Editörü Maulana Ubaidur Rahman Qasmi Uluslararası Kabartma Kur'an Hizmetleri Birliği'ni ziyaret etti. Hindistan'da yaşayan görme engellilere yönelik Kabartma Kur'an Hizmetlerinin yaygınlaştırılması konusunda Uluslararası Kabartma Kur'an Hizmetleri Birliği ile Muallim Dergisi'nin işbirliği yapması konusunu detaylı bir şekilde değerlendirdik. Muallim'in Genel Yayın Yönetmeni Ubaidur Rahman, kendisine hediye ettiğimiz Kabartma Mushafı yakında kuracağı Mushaf Müzesi'nde tanıtacak. Müzede IBQS için de bir tanıtım köşesi oluşturulacak inşallah.
We have talked about cooperation possibilities between IBQS and Muallim to improve Braille Quran Services in India. Ubaidur Rahman will exhibit the Braille Mushaf gifted by IBQS at their Mushaf Museum. The museum also will have a corner to introduce IBQS inshaAllah.