ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Foundation Fighting Blindness (PFFB) distributed
note books (laptops) to the 26 visually impaired students of different
universities and colleges of Punjab, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK), Islamabad
and Rawalpindi.
PFFB is a registered Non-government
organization (NGO) working in the field of humanitarian services for the
visually impaired persons in Pakistan.
A ceremony was organized here at PFFB head office to distribute 26 note books to deserving visually impaired beneficiaries.
PFFB’s
individual donor Khurram Hussain, who is a lawyer in United States (US)
met beneficiaries of PFFB and discussed the difficulties being faced by
the visually impaired students.
Khurram Hussain was hopeful
that these note books will help visually impaired students in their
education and learning modern techniques.
The beneficiaries came
from Islamabad, Rawalpindi, Attock, Gujar Khan, Taxila, Abbotabad,
Peshawar, Mardan, Malakand and Bahawalpur thanked the PFFB and its
individual donor on this assistance.
Meanwhile, Chairman PFFB
Abdullah Yousuf told this scribe that a fully equipped with screen
reader software information technology (IT) centre was established in
2007 in Islamabad to provide technological assistance to the visually
impaired university and college students of twin cities.
He
added that PFFB also decided to include establishment of IT centers as
part of the nationwide project on strong requests of the students across
the country. He said the organization would set up IT centers in Lahore
and Multan during coming months. Online
