Aisha Buhari Hails
Aisha Buhari Hails Qatar
Charity
Wife of the President,
Mrs. Aisha Muhammadu Buhari has commended Qatar Charity, an
international humanitarian organization, for their activities
across Nigeria. She was speaking during the presentation of Digital
Braille Quran for use by visually impaired students at the
International Conference Center, Abuja on 30th April,
2019.
Mrs. Buhari said the
Digital Braille Quran is an important innovation for visually
impaired people. She used the opportunity to encourage other
charities and philanthropic organizations to do more in this area
of promoting the use of digitized knowledge resources, so that
there will be no limit to the knowledge accessible to students,
especially because of their disability.
Mrs. Buhari said the
braille Quran 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, while expressing her
commitment to work with Qatar Charity to promote education in
Nigeria through the Aisha Buhari Foundation.
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 said 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 drew attention to the fact that in
every society, there is the strong and the weak, saying that the
beauty of any society manifests when the strong comes 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.
Goodwill messages were delivered by Dr. Isa Aliyu Pantami,
Director-General National Information Technology Development Agency
(NITDA), and the representative of Sultan of Sokoto.
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.
Highlight of the ceremony was the signing of a memorandum of
understanding between Aisha Buhari Foundation and Qatar
Charity.