Dzokhar-Ghala/Agency Caucasus – The Russian-installed puppet government of Chechnya will start in September a series of lessons for the visually-impaired to take in the state library of Dzokhar-Ghala, capital of Chechnya, and learn how to read the Koran in Braille.
It was first referred to as a project in August 2007 when Deputy Prime Minister Lema Magomadov of Chechnya met with Viktor Solomonov, Chairman of the Russian Union of the Blind People to discuss problems that face the visually-impaired.
A group of visually-impaired Chechen people will be employed in Dzokhar-Ghala to teach the Koran in Braille, a system that they mastered in Kazan. For the time being, 20 people have made an official application to take the Koran lessons, officials said.
Last year, a series of lessons were started in the central library of Petigorsk, a city of Stavropol-Kray, to teach the visually-impaired how to use a computer. Those visually-impaired students in general came from the ‘hot regions’ of North Caucasus just like Chechnya itself.
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