(MENAFN- Muscat Daily) Help is well underway for the visually challenged with firmed-up plans by Oman LNG to provide pieces of modern Braille sense equipment to the Al Noor Association for the Blind in Dakhiliyah governorate. The support by the country's liquefied natural gas company, inked with the association, is part of the company's broad efforts that subsumes many facets of daily life under a social investment umbrella that aims to improve the quality of life for people in the sultanate.
''Our members will use the Braille for many things – reading, writing and browsing the Internet to catch up with news and activities,'' said Soud bin Salim al Azri, chairman of the association in Birkat al Mouz. The 250 members of this branch of Al Noor association have thus far relied mainly on word-of-mouth, listening to radio and learning delivered by audio resources like cassettes and plates of compact discs to stay updated on developments. ''We've long heard of the Braille sense equipment and I'm looking forward to having it at the association. I'll be using it for my work here: writing reports, exchanging correspondence and reading,'' Azri explained.
''It will be a positive change to improve how we do a lot of things.'' Azri estimates that there are over 17,000 blind people in the country, with many receiving support from the Al Noor Association for the Blind, which started out in 1997 with a single centre in Muscat. It has since established centres in North Batinah, Dhofar, and Birkat al Mouz in Dakhiliyah.
''Like in every area where we are engaging with the society and the country in general, our purpose is to deliver sustainable value and that is exactly what we are aiming to do through the agreement we have signed with Al Noor,'' said Khalid al Massan, Oman LNG's, chief external affairs officer, after the agreement was signed. In an earlier agreement, also with the Al Noor Association for the Blind in Birkat al Mouz, Oman LNG had supplied over a hundred items including talking watches, talking scales and electronic canes.
Other efforts by the company to make life more comfortable for the visually impaired has seen it extend a hand of support to the Omar Bin al Khattab Institute for the Blind in Muscat. Here, it facilitated the provision a catalogue of different equipment covering lunar screen magnifiers, laptops and hearing system. Oman LNG has similarly funded the supply of critical articles for the Dhofar and Muscat centres of the Al Noor Associa
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