IBQS President Mr. Selahattin Aydin, IBQS Treasurer Mr. Halis Kuralay and IBQS Coordinator Mr. Recep Sehitoglu have visited Anatolian Businessmen Association (ASKON) recently. They met with ASKON President Mr. Mustafa Koca and did a fruitfull discussion with him. ASKON President Mr. Mustafa Koca declared that they will support IBQS's future projects.

Jerusalem - Born blind, Budour Hassan lacked confidence as a child when visiting new places or trying new things. Even stepping outside was a challenge.

Now, at the age of 26, she seems worlds away from her childhood in Nazareth.

"There have been times at protests, when Israeli police have been beating people. There has been a lot of tear gas, and people have been shouting, 'She can't see, she can't see' as a way to try and protect me," Hassan told Al Jazeera, sipping on a double espresso.

"You know, I understand why they say this, but if I'm honest, I don't like this so much."

Covering protests and clashes has become second nature to Hassan, a Palestinian journalist who reports for several media outlets and websites in Arabic and English.

For Elijah Hedgemond, his Braille books are a lifeline.

“It’s helpful to learn Braille. For me, I can’t read print," the 15-year-old said from his desk at the New York Institute for Special Education.​ ​

"​If I didn’t learn to read or write Braille I wouldn’t exactly be good in school.​”

He’s one of a number of students who are part of a push to bolster Braille literacy in the United States. Understanding of the embossed language, which consists of raised dots and patterns, has been challenged thanks to computers, tablets and audio books.

David is a civil rights campaigner who became a Muslim 5 years ago and is the muezzin for a mosque in irvington, New Jersey, USA.

He asked for a translation of the Quran in braille as he wanted to know the meaning of AlFatihah and the surahs he read.

In these photos he is reading the translation of Part 30 of the Quran which Alfitrah Foundation sent him through the Braille Quran Initiative in October last year. Inshaa Allah we will send him the translation of the whole Quran next week, which we completed braillising last week.

We met the teachers from Al-Basiir School for the Blind and deaf blind in Istanbul at the IBQS conference , and invited them to Malaysia to train them and give them materials to enable them to start producing books for the children at their school , Inshaa Allah

We met at the IBQS conference in istanbul last August, and now the teachers from Boarding Collage Al-Basiir, Somalia and Askar Kz from Kazakhstan and Abul Quasem Syed who started a school for the blind in West Bengal are now, alhamdulillah, in Malaysia with Alfitrah Foundation to visit schools and undergo training to equip them better to teach the blind in their respective countries, inshaa Allah.

Al-Fitrah Foundation is currently hosting some brothers from Somalia, Kazakhstan and the UK who are all involved in teaching the blind . Inshaa Allah they will gain beneficial knowledge and bring back braille Islamic books and equipment that will benefit the blind Muslim children in Somalia, Kazakhstan and West Bengal.

Alhamdulillah this is the one of the benefits of membership of the IBQS as we had met these brothers at the IBQS conference in Istanbul last August.

Al-Fitrah Foundation, our Malaysian member of IBQS hosts 3 Somalian teachers from AlBasiir School for the Blind, Mogadishu for a training session. We met them at the IBQS conference in Istanbul in August last year.

We will also be having 2 other people, from Kazakhstan and the UK whom we met at the same conference to join us, inshaa Allah next week.

Alhamdulillah the 17 braille Qurans donated by IBQS to Al-Basiir school for the Blind , Somalia has arrived from Istanbul . In the photo is Naley a 10 year old blind orphan girl. Naley needs a corneal transplant to see again

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.