Alhamdulillah. I can't say how pleased I am to see my friend Askar Kz Sakhirov teaching the blind in Kazakhstan. We worked with him at the Braille Association of Malaysia , and he learnt braille from scratch, thereafter Quraanic braille, and put together a Kazakh version of our braille Quran primer, with the help of Ustaz Sumairi.
Now Askar has gone back to Kazakhstan and started the first classes in reading the Quran in braille for the blind. May Allah bless him and his mother for their efforts.

The following is his comment from his facebook page.

Assalamu aleikum for everyone! Alhamdulillah, I safely came back to my hometown, and today we started our braille classes with my blind brothers and sisters, they were very happy, because it was first class for them. I want to say thank to my teachers and friends, especialy for my mother and to the Braille Associatin of Malaysia, also to the sister Norma Hashim who support during my study time. I hope insha Allah we will met again in our university soon. Have a nice holiday for all!

Shafeqa is a blind palestinian American who is studying at NYU ( New York University) , and she is speaking here about her activism and what its like to be a blind student activist.

Alhamdulillah Persatuan Braille Malaysia has helped a brother from Kazakhstan to produce a book to teach blind Muslims in Kazakhstan to read the Braille Quran.

The brother Askar Shakirov is 25 and is a graduate in Islamic Studies from the Islamic university in Almaty, Kazakhstan.
After he graduated he was working in a masjid when a blind man came in and wanted to learn the Quran. Askar could only ask him to repeat what he read as the man could not read the Quran.

Every summer Dar Al Quran wa Sunnah runs a summer camp for blind children where they learn the Quran as well as go on outings . We will be launching our sponsorship drive soon inshaAllah, for 50 children to join the camp this summer.