Digital Braille Quran: Aisha Buhari Lauds Qatar Charity

Mrs. Buhari lauds international charity organization over innovation.
Digital Quran is meant to provide some inclusion for those with visual impairment and enable them to also learn to memorize the Quran at their own pace.
Wife of the President, Aisha Buhari has lauded Qatar Charity for their activities across Nigeria.
Buhari gave the commendation when speaking during the presentation of Digital Braille Quran for use by visually impaired students at the International Conference Center, Abuja on Tuesday.

While noting that the Digital Braille Quran is an important innovation for visually impaired people, Buhari used the opportunity to encourage other charities and philanthropic organizations to do more in this area of promoting the use of digitized knowledge resources in order to have a limitless knowledge accessible to students, especially because of their disability.

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While expressing her commitment to work with Qatar Charity to promote education in Nigeria through the Aisha Buhari Foundation, Buhari said the Quran presented by the international humanitarian organization is a great addition to the school library and another aid towards the teaching of Islam in particular and the provision of qualitative education in general.

Speaking, the Executive Secretary of Qatar Charity, Dr. Hamdi Muhammad said the charity has been in operation in Nigeria for the last five years building mosques and boreholes and sending cash transfers to orphans across different faiths.
He further explained that the Digital Quran is meant to provide some inclusion for those with visual impairment and enable them to also learn to memorize the Quran at their own pace.
Guest speaker at the event, Sheikh Tajudeen Bello, who drew attention to the fact that in every society, there is the strong and the weak, said that the beauty of any society manifests when the strong come to the aid of the weak. He commended Qatar Charity for making available the digital Quran as it will enable blind persons to read, understand and even teach it.

Many schools for the blind across the country attended the event with their students and all the students received copies of the digital braille Quran.

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