Alhamdulillah we welcomed a delegation of 5 NGOs from Bangladesh on Friday. The delegates had spent 3 days in Melaka being trained on the use and repair of Braille embossers by Anna Lau from Index Braille Technology Sys M Sdn Bhd. All these NGOs produce braille books for the blind in Bangladesh.
Also accompanying them was Shaima a visually impaired Yemeni refugee who is helping us with brailling work as a means of supporting her family.
We welcomed two visitors yesterday from Sydney, Australia. Ustaz Naseer and his wife Raowa were interested to learn about our work and to find out how to learn Quraanic braille.
Haji Islah Busakorn who visited our office last month with his wife has started the first Madrassa for the blind in Thailand. He has requested for the following items:
Braille Quran and various islamic books in Braille
Braille paper
White canes
Brailler
Braille slates
If you’d like to contribute you can make a donation through our website www.alfitrah.net
Masha Allah , great to see our brother Askar Sakhirov teaching the Quran to the blind in Kazakhstan. Previously there had been no ustaz who could read Braille but now after learning in Malaysia , Askar has started classes on Kazakhstan.
A lecturer from a university in Bangladesh told us about the Kashipur madrassa for the blind in Khulna. This is the only madrasa for blind people in this zone which runs on the support of local people. It is a registered non government madrasa opening a door to memorize Holy Quran for poor blind people and also reading through braille technique.
A kind brother donated for a brailler to enable the students to learn braille so we sent this to them today along with 2 braille Qurans.
Name of the Organization: Kashipur Blind Hifz Madrasa, Lillah Boarding and Orphanage
Location: South Kashipur, Khulna Bangladesh
Address: Plot number-44/4, Road No- 274, South Kashipur, Khalishpur, Khulna, Bangladesh
Premises details: 1800 sq ft land in the name of this organisation, with tin sheded one storied structure,
Number of student: Total 108 Blind (resident and non resident), 12 residential ( among them 03 are orphan)
Number of teacher: 03 residential, a few part timer.
Name of the Head Master: Mollah Abdul Malek ( Braille Teacher)
Year of Establishment:1987
Registered number: 100/74
Teaching method: Braille
Number of blind full hafiz: 17
Other facilities: Residential facilities only for 15 student