Al-Fitrah foundation trustee ,Haji Othman Isa , handing over a set of braille Quran donated under our Waqf scheme and some braille Islamic books to Mr Nordin Hanafiah , a telephonist at the KOMTAR building in Penang. On his left is Mr Thangaveloo who is keen to read an English translation of the Holy Quran. Haji Othman has completed transcribing the English translation into braillle and our staff Firdaus is currently editing it . Inshaa Allah it will be ready by the end of next month.
Alex Taylor was born 16 weeks early, weighing only 900 grams. To mark the UN's International Day of Persons with Disabilities , the 25-year-old journalist who lives with cerebral palsy pens a letter to his young mother as she and her husband stood by his incubator not knowing whether their son would survive - and if he did what kind of life he would lead.
Al-Fitrah Foundation is arranging a trip to Malaysia for the teachers of Boarding Collage Al-Basiir school for the blind, to give them training to teach the blind and to produce braille school books. Inshaa Allah when they return to Mogadishu they will be able to give the blind children a proper education which will enable them to be independent and successful.
Dot， Making Braille Accessible Through Cheap Smart Device
Six－dot Braille is a system of raised dots allows people with blindness and severe sight loss to read. Refreshable braille displays helps the blind also use computer screens and other electronic supports. But the problem is that the devices are expensive. Young students have launched a startup venture to help these people. They developed affordable wrist－wearable smart device that can help the visually impaired as well as illiterate people to read e－books and access information on the Internet. We introduce a remarkable story about young entrepreneurs and their “Dot” venture， using their bright minds to help the needy people around the world.
HETAUDA, Nepal — WATCHING the doctor perform is like observing miracles. He has restored eyesight to more than 100,000 people, perhaps more than any doctor in history, and still his patients come. They stagger and grope their way to him along mountain trails from remote villages, hoping to go under his scalpel and see loved ones again. A day after he operates to remove cataracts, he pulls off the bandages — and, lo! They can see clearly. At first tentatively, then jubilantly, they gaze about.
A few hours later, they walk home, radiating an ineffable bliss. Dr. Sanduk Ruit, a Nepali ophthalmologist, may be the world champion in the war on blindness. Some 39 million people worldwide are blind — about half because of cataracts — and another 246 million have impaired vision, according to the World Health Organization. If you’re a blind person in a poor country, then traditionally you have no hope. But Dr. Ruit has pioneered a simple cataract microsurgery technique that costs only $25 per patient and is virtually always successful.