NBF to provide more free Braille books

Islamabad : National Book Foundation (NBF) is providing braille books to the blind persons almost free of charge across the country.

Talking to this agency, Managing Director of National Book Foundation, (NBF), Qaisar Alam said workshops and seminars would be organised to make people aware of the problems of visually impaired persons.

He said for blind people braille was the path to becoming literate adding that 90 percent of blind children were not learning braille in school.

He said NBF has planned to extend their facilities for visually impaired children to make access to book reading easy to them.

He said the National Book Foundation was working hard for the promotion of book culture in Pakistan and would take steps to improve the system of Braille books in particular. He said NBF has the honour of publishing the Urdu translation of the Quran in Braille.