Projects

• To provide compute to PSRD school, Lahore, Pakistan
• Providing financial assistance to 80 poor students, in the form of fees, uniform etc

Future Projects

• To provide laboratory equipment to PSRD (school for disabled)
• Arrangin water facilities to girls primary school in a village near Attock.
• Providing taling books and educational resources to blind, deaf and dumb school in Lahore, Rawalpindi, Queta and Karachi, Pakistan, Gujarat in India

How you can help Iqra School

1. Sponsor a child. £50per year
2. Donate money to buy clothes on Eid festivals.£12per child
3. Buy gifts for educational purposes for blind, deaf and dumb child. £3per child
4. Buy educational resources for disabled child. £8per child

Simply fill in your details on our donation form and choose how much you would like to donate by filling in your preferred amount in the box provided. If you have any queries, please don’t hesitate to contact Iqra Education Trust on 020 8470 4936 or 020 8539 7298 or email enquiry@helpachild.co.uk. Thank you for your support.

Please send your Direct Debit form to:

Iqra Education Trust, 19 West End Avenue, Leyton, London, E10 6DY, United Kingdom

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Recents Projects

Swat Crisis

Iqra trust raised £4218.00 for the displaced people of Swat and Malakand. The money was spent to purchase food ration, clothing’s, medicine, kitchen utensils, children clothing and other essential items that were required for these people. These things were distributed in Mardan , Ataq and Peshawar. With your help and donations Iqra Trust is supporting 31 families which includes 208 people; adults and children, on a regular basis. These people have been provided accommodation by their friends and relatives and other generous people of Ataq and Peshawar. Iqra Trust is regularly providing them food and essential items to keep their life going.

Peshawar contact person:-
Mr. Wasiq : 0092-(0)3005950353

Attock contact person:-
Mr. Mumtaz Ahmed : 0092-(0)3335157538 , 0092-572662683

You can also send the money directly to them by giving Iqra Trust reference.
We need more money for the new born children and their mothers as the help is not reaching to these people who are living in private accommodation.

 

Blind Projects

In year 2008 and 2009, Iqra Trust funded a computer centre for adult blinds. Funding were provided to furbish the building purchasing the furniture and two computers for this project. Other NGOS donated two more computers to them and the project is operational.

Contact person:-
Mr. Khalid Mahmood
Chair Person Blind Organisation
Bhawalpur
Phone: 03216816877

Iqra Trust needs money to employ a full time teacher to teach computing to these blinds.

Braille Quran books and equipment

Every year Iqra Trust provides Braille Quran books and equipment to blind students in Pakistan. With your generous funding Braille Qurans have not only been given in Pakistan, but also sent abroad in Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and South Africa. Recently we supplied two Braille Qurans published and printed in Saudi Arabia to blind organisation in Bradford.

If you know any blind who needs Braille Quran in UK or Europe they can contact Iqra Trust or Mrs.Kalsoom Akhtar in Bradford.

New project for the deaf

Karachi deaf organisation published five useful books for the deaf children. Iqra Trust purchased the books and donated these books to 16 schools in Karachi, Lahore, Okara, Rawal Pindi, Azad Kashmir and many other deaf schools in Pakistan. As deaf children need these books and four set of books cost £5. You can donate money for this good cause.

Other Projects

Iqra Trust is regularly supporting 15 special schools since 2003. Every year books , educational equipment, computers and uniforms are supplied to these schools with your donations. And hundreds of children are being supported every year with your donations.

Specialist Speech and Language Therapist

Being able to communicate is a fundamental human right. Our basic needs are met by communicating and interacting with the people around us. For most of us this is an automatic process, one that we think very little about. The moment we begin to consider the complexity behind being able to use and understand spoken language we become eternally grateful to Allah (SWT) for his generosity and blessings upon us. Some individuals have impaired communication skills. In the UK one in ten children have a speech, language or communication difficulty (I Can Statistics). With such high prevalence it is understandable why Speech and Language Therapist’s are so sought after. It is their role to support an individual to communicate in the most effective way possible. With Speech and Language Therapy being a relatively new health profession there are many hurdles that need to be encountered not just nationally but worldwide. Some such hurdles are the lack of therapists themselves, poor understanding of communication skills vs. pathology, failure of identification and poor resources to provide support.

As a Pakistani Speech and Language Therapist working in London I have for some time been investigating the presence of this profession in the country of my origin. I feel saddened that Speech and Language Therapy is not a recognized profession and that as a whole the awareness of communication difficulties and support is historic in nature. When Mr Anees Qari from Iqra Educational Trust gave me the opportunity to support the development of Speech and Language Therapy in some special schools in Lahore, Pakistan I jumped at the offer. Looking back now at my short trip without doubt I can say that this was the most rewarding piece of work I have done in my career so far.

Most of the work was focused at PSRD. I was welcomed to the school by some beautiful children singing a welcome song and play. I was amazed to see the confidence in these young girls who had some quite distinct disabilities. I met with the staff and they showed me around the school and introduced me to several children. I was truly impressed to see the good work of Iqra Educational Trust and it was pleasing to see that their donated resources were being fully utilized. The Sheltered Workshop and Art Rooms were inspirational. I visited the speech unit and discussed speech and language therapy provision with the teachers. I gained an insight into their knowledge and needs. The majority of the children at school have some form of communication difficulty. The most apparent was cerebral palsy and learning difficulties. Some children are pre-verbal whilst many have some form of social communication disorder. The following day I ran a tailored training session and workshop for staff at the school. This was well attended with an audience of about 30. I focused on identifying speech, language and communication difficulties and strategies to support these children. I handed over Speech and Language Therapy resources that were donated by Iqra Educational Trust and many other organizations that I had arranged through my work. This was followed by a question and answer session and a word of thanks.

It was an honour to visit PSRD and to see the commitment and passion of the staff. I am pleased we have set off on our journey to ensure all our children despite their background or medical difficulties can achieve their basic human right to communicate. Inshallah I hope that I can go back and continue to provide the much needed support for teachers working with these children with significant communication difficulties. My sincere thanks to Iqra Educational Trust for giving me the opportunity to help. May Allah (SWT) bless all the good devoted people who are involved in these projects and help us all to contribute to making a positive future for all children in Pakistan.

Nabiah Sohail Specialist Speech and Language Therapist - London.

Be a part of all this

We offers a variety of ways to donate. We really value your contributions whichever way you choose to support us because our work is only possible with the generosity of our donors and supporters.

To reduce our bank costs we prefer direct payments into our account. Ask your bank about a standing order, a direct transfer or use your Internet Banking.

Or download a regular donation standing order form here.

Please send your form to:

Iqra Education Trust,
19 West End Avenue,
Leyton, London,
E10 6DY,
United Kingdom

Our bank details are:

Account Name: IQRA EDUCATION TRUST
Account number: 70020450
Sort Code: 60-22-30

If you want more information then please contact us on +(44) 208 539 7298.

 

Financial help to Azad Kashmir, Manshera and Muzaffarabad Rehabilitation Centre

IQRA Educational Trust has provided practical assistance by way of providing the following much needed physical/sensory specialist equipment:

Item Number Quantity Item purchased

1. 4 Infra Red Lamps
2. 1 Therapeutic Massager
3. 2 Stationery Bikes for Exs
4. 2 TENS
5. 2 Standing Frames
6. 2 Wheel chairs
7. 1 Hydro Collator
8. 1 Quad chair
9. 4 Treatment couches
10. 2 Special chairs for special kids
11. 4 Physiotherapy Balls
12. 3 Occupational Therapy chairs

This project cost 108,000 Pk Rupees.
The above mentioned machines and material are not only relevant to the centre’s core needs but also proven to be very useful in helping to aid rehabilitation activities. The children of particularly serious physical disabilities such as children with Cerebral Pasty benefited from utilizing the equipment, and you will note from the photograph below, that the children are happily making use of the equipment, and playing together.

 

 

Medina Blind School Faisalabad
Supply of Braille and Audio Visual Equipments to specialist schools. (For blind children)

In July 2007, the IQRA Trust supplied free of cost much needed Braille equipment and other audio visual equipment to specialist schools catering for blind children in variously located districts of Peshawar, Mirpur Khas, Kohat, Charsada, Abbotabad, Bahawalpur, Rawalpindi, Islamabad, Kamalia, Faislabad, Lahore, Okara, Bahawalnagar, Jehlum, Jhang, Kohat, Peshawar, Mirpurkhas, Nawabshah, Larkana, Karachi, Sukhar and Quetta. As a aresult, the majority of these schools for the blind now have sufficient Braille equipment for thier students. Six of the blind schools were new, to whom we supplied the equipment for the first time. We received letter of thanks from these schools.

Students of Medina Blind school	Blind children with perkins brailler
Teachers and students of Blind school

 

Tanzeem-ul-lissan Disable and deaf School Faisalabad

Mr. Anees Qari, Chairman Iqra Trust U.K visited Tanzeem-al-Lissan Faisalabad on 11-09-2007. He very kindly rounded to the classrooms, met with the children and discussed various issues with the teachers regarding the educational matters. He also got the requirements and needs of the classrooms from the teachers during his round. After classrooms round, he holds a meeting with teachers In charge of Danish and Al-Masoom centres; Physiotherapist, Sports teacher, Vice Principal and Principal. He shared the classroom problems with the participants of the meeting and delivered some advises to improve the setup of classrooms for better educational results. He further instructed to keep a dictionary in every class. Magazine “Taleem-o-Tarbiat” should regularly come in the institution. The arrangements of science kit also get ensured. Physiotherapist should visit the PSRD Lahore to see the equipments being used there. The missing articles and facilities might be identified and arranged in Tanzeem-al-Lissan. He very kindly announced that the financial assistance will be provided by Iqra Trust. Respected Mr.Anees Qari at the last had a meeting with the undersigned (President Tanzeem-ul-lissan). The following matters were discussed and decided upon

1. President Tanzeem-al-Lissan paid thanks for the visit of Mr.Anees Qari and gave detailed introduction of Tanzeem-al-Lissan from its inspection till
to date.

2. Mr. Iftikhar Ahmed pay thanks to Iqra Trust for its valuable support
provided to Tanzeem-al-Lissan in the past and requested for permanent
sponsorship of Play Group which Mr.Qari Anees agreed gladly and asked for the submission of demands.

3. Mr. Anees Qari further agreed to provide assistance to arrange sports
material (Bocce Ball etc). Tanzeem-al-Lissan should make arrangement for its purchase.

4. Mr. Anees Qari viewed that he himself has visited and assessed the needs of Tanzeem-al-Lissan and ensured that Iqra Trust shall provide regular assistance to Tanzeem especially to improve classroom set-up for the uplift of the standard of education being provided to the special children.

5. Iqra Trust will provide assistance to purchase of physiotherapy
equipments as discussed in the meeting with Physiotherapist. At the end the undersigned once again paid the vote of thanks to the chairman Iqra Trust
for his visit to Tanzeem-al-Lissan.

Mr. Iftikhar, Mr. Anees & staff	Mr. Anees visiting the Students of Tanzeem-al-lissan
Class room of Tanzeem-al-lissan

Hajvery Disable school, Johar town Lahore

The Hajvery School for disabled children was established by president Zia for children with disability. There are 107 boys and girls studying in the school and the principal of the school requested us to provide educational resources: CD players etc. Their special request was to provide funding to establish a library as it is essential to get recognition from the education department as an exam centre. The school is from KG to Matric. IQRA Trust provided funding to purchase the library books, books shelves etc and the as name of the library after IQRA TRUST.

Hajvery Teachers and students in library with staff	School Library named after IQRA Trust
Mr. Anees, Mr. Javed principal Mrs. Saeeda & staff Hajvery Disable school Johar Town, Lahore, Pakistan

 

Supply of Books and Educational Resources to specialist schools (for disabled children)

We have supplied audio visual equipment, educational tapes and CDs to specialist schools catering for children with disabilities, variously located in the districts of Lahore, Faisalabad, TobaTeksing, Quetta and Karachi. These donations were highly appreciated as the schools did not have such resources before, and were able to make good use of the tapes and CDs in subjects such as Urdu, Islamic studies, English and Social Studies, even while their teacher was away.

Teachers and students of the Hajvery special school.

PSRD School (Lahore)

I and my family visited PSRD School on 13th April 2007. We were greeted by the principal Mrs. Tasneem. She briefed us about the PSRD school aims and objectives and thanked IQRA Trust members for all the work IQRA is doing towards the betterment of the school. PSRD School is for special children who have different disabilities. Most of the funding is done by various trusts and IQRA is one of them.

Principal of PSRD took us to every class and we chatted with some of the children. PSRD is celebrating its silver jubilee and most of the students were preparing for the ceremony. We heard a special song which they had prepared for the ceremony and our hearts were moved that those children performed so well that no one can distinguish them from normal children.

IQRA Trust is one those trusts whose presence can be seen from the computer lab to the science lab. Children were performing scientific experiments in the science lab and some of the children were efficiently using the computers provided by IQRA.

A special ceremony was organised to distribute gifts to the IQRA trust sponsored children. The ceremony started with the recitation of the Holy Qur'an by one of the children. We were introduced to all of the sponsored children by the principal. Then gifts donated by IQRA trust were distributed among the children. The smiles on those innocent faces were unmatchable. They all thanked IQRA trust and prayed for the well being of the members.

PSRD School had rented a piano from some other school and they were demanding it back. Keeping in view the importance of the musical instrument IQRA Trust bought them a piano and that was also handed over to the staff in the ceremony. We were also shown the library and the cupboards donated by the IQRA Trust. Sweets were also distributed among all PSRD students by IQRA Trust.
Our visit ended with a thanks note form the principal and best wishes from the children.

Musical instruments donated by IQRA Trust	Acknowledgement of Computers donated by IQRA Trust
PSRD Students in Science Lab	Dr. Ijaz, Usman & Mrs. Ijaz with IQRA sponsored children

Technical School (Mureed Kay)

IQRA School helped the ‘Mureed Kay’ technical school by providing them with computers, audio visual equipment, as well as educational tapes and books for the library. IQRA will also be sponsoring ten children from the school and will help them to set up a proper science laboratory. The teacher and the students were so impressed by IQRA’s generosity that they have named their centre the IQRA Computer Centre.

Please note, ‘Mureed Kay’ is a small town situated 28km away from Lahore. This is an industrial town and the majority of the population work in the small factories, as a result ordinary people’s income and standard of living is very low.

Waqar Secondary School

The ‘Waqar’ school is situated in one of the poor localities in Lahore and there are about 150 boys and girls. IQRA Trust has provided Waqar School with computers, educational equipment and resources, as well as assistance to complete their building work. We are pleased to report that as a result, the school is making excellent progress and the exam results this year have been reported to be very good.

Mr. Anees, Mr. Rafiq Staff and students Waqar School Mustafabad, Lahore, Pakistan

Jinnah Secondary School

We have been funding ‘Jinnah’ Secondary School for the past four years and the student population has since grown due to the good exam results of the school - there are two school shifts now to deal with the increased number of pupils. Jinnah School have put forward a request to set up a well stocked library, Mr Aslam and IQRA Trust will provide them funding for this. The school has suffered major setbacks since many of the well qualified and experienced staff do not stay at the school very long as , they cannot afford to pay salaries in line with those provided by private centres. The school is also lacking a science teacher, and has approached IQRA Trust to partly fund the science teacher’s salary.

Lala Rukh Disabled School - Mughalpura (Lahore)

This is one of the sister schools of PSRD. The school is in very poor shape, and has limited equipment, resources and books. IQRA Trust has spent 69,000Rs spend to purchase educational and sports equipment for the school, furniture, Audio Visual equipments(CD Player & Tape recorder),sewing machines, Two computers, Educational CDs and tapes, Educational charts, Text books and exercise books, exercise bikes and running machines for disabled children. The school has requested further funding to setup Speech Therapy Lab for students who have speech difficulties.

Equipments donated by Iqra Trust	Mrs. Samina Ilyas Principal with guests and students.
Mr. Javed, Ms. Arwa Ahmed Coordinator Iqra Lahore

Shafi School system Talwandy District Kasur

Talwandy is very small village near to famous city of Kasur. The city well known for birth and burial place of famous place saint Hazarat Bhulay Shah. The school is residential where 67 young children boys and girls who are either orphans or deserved by drugs addicted parents. The school is run by Mr. Ahmad Javid a retired Geologist, who has settled in Pakistan after working 40 year in America. The school provides basic education alone with IT skills for boys and girls and swing and embroidery work for girls. The Iqra Trust provided the school with Text books, educational books, and Audio visual equipment. The school needs some more help specially clothing for boys and girls.

IQRA main Achievements

IQRA TRUST has provided Braille equipment, Braille Qur'ans and other educational resources to 16 Blind schools all over Pakistan. Recently, due to the current political situation, the Sindh government stopped the printing of Braille Qur’ans in Karachi Pakistan. As they were no longer providing Braille paper to the printing press, Iqra Trust purchased the Braille paper and ordered the printing one hundred copies of Braille Qur’an. These copies of Qur’an will be given to different blind organisation and schools free of cost. This is all due to very generous contribution from our donor and trustees. All the blind schools in Pakistan have been provided free of cost Plastic Braille frames for class work to learn Braille language etc.