BY MOHD ZAHID AHMAD ZAKI KUCHING: More than 20 sets of the Al-Quran in braille worth RM1,000 each have been handed over to the visually impaired in the state. Deputy Minister in the Sarawak Premier’s Department (Integrity and Ombudsman), Datuk…
KUCHING: Sarawak has received the Al-Quran in braille to assist the visually impaired to improve on reading and memorising the holy book. The Malaysian Huffaz Association, despite the COVID-19 pandemic, has been proactive in helping the poor and disabled groups…
BY JACINTHA JOLENE SIBU: Visually impaired people here have found a helping hand in Senator Robert Lau Hui Yew. He donated RM3,000 to the Sarawak Branch of the Malaysian Society for the Visually Impaired (SBM) with the aim of helping the…
KUALA LUMPUR: A teacher of Sekolah Kebangsaan Klang has invented a running aid that will allow his visually-impaired students to participate in athletics on their own without assistance. Wan Muadzam Wan Abidin, 40, has named the invention ‘Caballus Rafvi’ which…
BY NAZRINZULAIQA HASBI HELEN Keller once said that the only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision. Being blind and deaf did not stop her from becoming a prolific author, political activist and an educator. Her…
KUCHING: Visually challenged operators of massage and reflexology centres here feel relieved as they are allowed to re-open starting this Monday (Dec 21). Owner of TN Massage Centre Tazlan Jen said he was looking forward to it and would ensure…
KUCHING: Twenty-five visually impaired people with disabilities received food baskets from corporate bodies through the Ministry of Welfare, Community Wellbeing, Women, Family and Childhood Development today. Each food basket contains two bags of rice, eggs, cooking oil, sugar, tea, coffee,…
Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything. — Plato, Athenian philosopher If one takes a look at numerous editions of global Got Talent shows, there are many blind…
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