Rampur, Assam: On May 31 Vision Institute of Technology, Rampur (VIT) Assam inaugurated under the sponsorship oh Human Welfare Foundation, New Delhi on 31st May 2010. The Institute is being managed by Insan Welfare Society, Rampur. At present two trades like computer Training and Dress Making and Fashion Designing will be imparted. In the programme dignitaries like Prof. K.A. Siddique Hassan, General Secretary, Human Welfare Foundation, New Delhi, Mr. P.I. Haneefa, M.K. Farook from Trivandram, K.M. Najeeb from Malapurram, Abdul Latheef P.K. from Kalour, Kerela, Prof. Dewan Nazrul Qadir addressed the meeting and explained the necessity of the Institute.
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Rampur, Assam: On May 31 Vision Institute of Technology, Rampur (VIT) Assam inaugurated under the sponsorship oh Human Welfare Foundation, New Delhi on 31st May 2010. The Institute is being managed by Insan Welfare Society, Rampur. At present two trades like computer Training and Dress Making and Fashion Designing will be imparted. In the programme dignitaries like Prof. K.A. Siddique Hassan, General Secretary, Human Welfare Foundation, New Delhi, Mr. P.I. Haneefa, M.K. Farook from Trivandram, K.M. Najeeb from Malapurram, Abdul Latheef P.K. from Kalour, Kerela, Prof. Dewan Nazrul Qadir addressed the meeting and explained the necessity of the Institute.

New Delhi : Society For Bright Future have organized an Awareness Programme on Disaster Risk Management in the Schools of Jamia Nagar ,area by the help of Deputy Commissioner (South Delhi) Office, M. B. Road ,Saket .New Delhi Schools are given training for Familiarization today on 4. 05. 2010 are-Milli Modal School D Block , Abul Fazal Enclave ,Garden Public School and Shaheen Public School –Shaheen Bagh . Saifi Public School Abul Fazal and Ganga Dayal Haiti Cheritable School Jamia Nagar
Through this Programme SBF Facilitate the awareness programme on Disaster Risk Management through Street/Role Plays.,Conducted Mock drills Facilitated in fill up of the school Disaster Management Plan booklets and prepared evacuation map for the schools.
Another Schools will be be given training in other SBF Co-ordinator Mr. Aquil Ahmad arranged these Programmes. The Managers and Principle of schools given full support for success these Programs.


New Delhi: The Delhi-based NGO Human Welfare Foundation has come up to adopt the Uttar Pradesh family with five blind sons after Munauwar (60) and his wife Rubina (55) pleaded for mercy killing in their letter sent to President Pratibha Patil. The family was fed up of their penury and the burden of their five blind sons in Uttar Pradesh's Mau district, had sought mercy killing for their entire family.
HWF made the announcement to adopt the family at a Press Conference in Varansi on 22 April.
Uttar Pradesh chief of Jamaat-e-Islami Hind Maulana Waliullah Saeedi Falahi with a delegation visited Mau and met the affected family members. He assured them about the adoption on behalf of HWF.
Munauwar and his wife Rubina have pleaded for mercy killing in their letter sent to President Pratibha Patil, Uttar Pradesh Governor B.L. Joshi, state Chief Minister Mayawati and authorities of Mau district, about 300 km from Lucknow.
"We don't want to live any more. It's miserable. We are not even able to arrange food for ourselves on a daily basis," Munauwar told reporters in Mau on Friday.
All his five sons aged between 16-35-were born blind.
Munauwar, a resident of Mau's Palia village, is the sole breadwinner in the family and has not been able to take care of his five blind sons and wife for the past several months.
Villagers normally provide leftovers to Munauwar's family and that has kept them alive till now.
"Believe me, if the neighbours stop providing leftovers to us, we will all eventually die of starvation," he said.



New Delhi, 29 March 2010: A meeting of the desirous Sponsors of a
national NGO on Interest-free Microfinance was held in India
International Islamic Cultural Centre at New Delhi on 28th August,
2010. Twenty one eminent scholars, professional and social activists
attended the meet chaired by Mr. Sherif Ahmed Cadri from Kerela. After
detailed discussion and deliberations on issues relating to
socio-economic upliftment of poor mass, it was unanimously resolved to
launch a national NGO to be registered in the name of “SAHULAT
MICROFINANCE SOCIETY” with its headquarter at New Delhi and Branch
Offices in different regions of the country. The Society shall be a
voluntary, non-political, non-profit making social service
organisation established to provide interest-free micro-finance
options for removing socio-economic disparities and to achieve justice
and equity for educationally and financially backward sections of the
public at large. The Bye-laws and Rules & Regulations of the Society
were thoroughly discussed in the meeting and were unanimously adopted.
The Society shall be a facilitating and promoting agency for launching
interest-free microfinance cooperative movement all over the country.
The target for the next five years has been to establish atleast 500
microfinance units at different places all over the country. A five
year Perspective Plan and Budget has been approved. As per the
projected plan, during the next five years, the proposes 500
cooperative units to provide micro-credits to about 7.7 lacs of
micro-enterprisers and poor persons without charging any interest. The
Perspective Plan with financial projection was thoroughly discussed by
financial experts and management professionals in the light of several
years’ experiences of other interest-free microfinance institutions
running in the country. It has been resolved to achieve a 16-point
target relating to registration of the NGO and Cooperatives, survey,
training & research, establishment of microfinance cooperative
branches at ten places and setting up administrative and managerial
units of the NGO during the preparatory year 2010-11. The Action Plan
and the Budget for 2010-11 was also approved.
The idea of launching the national NGO was actually mooted by Prof. K
A Siddique Hassan, Chairman of the Human Welfare Trust as part of the
Vision 2016 of the Trust which has envisioned a multi-pronged
development plan for socio-economically backward families of the
country. The Trust had constituted a Task Force under the guidance of
renowned Islamic Economist Prof. Nejatullah Siddiquee in February,
2009. Convener of the Task Force Mr.Arshad Ajaml presented the
Action-Completion Report of the Task Force. During the last one year,
the Task Force met several times to finalize the blue print of the
proposed NGO and the roadmap for launching interest-free microfinance
institutions, organized orientation and training camps at the national
and State levels, conducted a research study by Mr. Palath on
Interest-free Microfinance Institutions in African, Middle-East and
South Asian countries, considered the status report by Dr. Rahmatullah
on existing interest-free institutions running at 221 places in the
country, finalized the working model of Interest-free Microfinance
Cooperative institution prepared by Mr. Arshad Ajmal. Efforts of the
Task Force were appreciated by assembled Sponsors.
With unanimous voice of the assembled Sponsors forming the General
Body, Prof. Hassan has been elected as President and Mr. Arshad
Ajmal as Vice-President besides 11 members of the Governing Body of
the national NGO. Mr. Amir Ali, Manager of Islamic Bank, Muscat
offered Rs.11 lacs for establishment cost of the NGO and Interest-free
Microfinance Cooperative Branches and also offered his services for
raising fund for sponsoring new Cooperative branches at some more
places. Mr. Kaul from BSICS stressed that the proposed microfinance
cooperative units should develop a ‘transformational relationship’
with poor beneficiaries rather than ‘transactional relationship’. He
viewed that various developmental components of Vision 2016 should
converge with the microfinance activities as inclusive strategy
towards enabling the poor mass to get livelihood opportunities. Mr.
Shashi Bhushan shall prepare a blue print of the functional
description of the NGO Secretariat and the job description of the CEO
required for implementing the Perspective Plan of SAHULAT.
Following sponsors attended the formation meeting of SAHULAT and
formed the General Body of SAHULAT Microfinance Society to be
registered as a national NGO under Societies Registration Act, 1860.
Maximum number of General Body members as fixed under the provisions
of the Byelaws is 40.
1. K.A.SIDDIQUE HASSAN (KERELA)
2. SHERIF AHMED CADIRI P.M. (Kerela)
3. ARSHAD AJMAL (Bihar)
4. K.K. AlLIKUNJ (Kerela)
5. MD. SALAUDDIN KHAN (Bihar)
6. MD.ASLAM PARVEZ (W. Bengal)
7. ABUZAR KAMALUDDIN (Bihar)
8. AMIR AFAQUE AHMAD FAIZI (Bihar)
9. SHAHEED RAMZAN C.P (Kerela)
10. SHASHI BUSHAN (Andhra Pradesh)
11. ANOOP KAUL (Delhi)
12. TAHIR BEG (UP)
13. NASIMA KHAN (Delhi)
14. RAHMATTULLAH (Maharashtra)
15. ABDUR RAHMAN (Assam)
16. MOHMMAD ABBAS ANSARI (Maharashtra)
17. S. RAFI AHMAD (Karnatka)
18. MD. ABDUR RASHEED (Maharashtra)
19. H.ABDUR RAQEEB (Tamil Nadu)
20. AUSAF AHMAD (UP)
21. AMEER AHMAD (Kerela)
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Following the visit of Assam during 20-22 July 09 to carry forward the project of building a nation-wide network of trained para- legal social activists at grass-root level and Chapter formation of APCR, Dr. Shakeel Ahmad, Director, APCR along with Mahtab Alam, Coordinator, travelled to Guwahati and Badarpur once again during 24-31 December 09. Details of the tour are as follows:
Assam (North)
26-27 December, 2009, Guwahati
A two days training workshop has been organized at Hotel Moosoon Palace, Guwahati on the above mentioned dates. Around 50 activists from 16 districts of Assam participated in the workshop. It was also agreed during a meeting with local leadership within a month and informed to the center accordingly. A brief report of the workshop is attached here with.
Assam (South)
29-30th December 09, Badarpur
A similar two days training workshop has been organized at Al-Ameen Complex, Badarpur during the above mentioned dates. Around 25 activists from 5 district of South Assam participated in the workshop. At the conclusion of the workshop an ad hoc committee for six months has also been formed and Mr. Bilal Ahmad Khan has been appointed as it Convener. A brief report of the workshop is attached here with.
West Bengal
It was also scheduled to review the activities of APCR West Bangal during our journey but due to unavailability of concerned persons in Kolkata the time while going Assam (as both Amir-e-Halqa, Rahmat Ali sahib as well as Secretary Halqa and Convener of the Chapter , Dr. Masihur Rahman sahib were on official tour), we could not make it.
New Delhi: 25 Feb 2010 On 11th October 2009, the Hindu published a story titled “Delhi village leads life without electricity”. ‘Badarpur Khadar Village in Karawal Nagar constituency area of North-East Delhi’ lacks every basic facility. It has no power, no water connection, no school and nor a government dispensary. The more shocking aspect of this story was the fact that the village is at a driving distance of just 30 minutes from the office of the Chief Minister. The village houses more than 5000 persons. Reacting to the story, a delegation of Human Welfare Foundation visited the Badarpur Khadar Village to assess the ground situation there and decided to take up the matter with the Chief Minister.
Today, a high level delegation of the HWF lead by its Chairman, Mr. Saiyid Hamid remet the Chief Minister Mrs. Shiela Dixit, apprised her about the condition of the Badarpur Khadar Village and discussed the possibilities of developing the area.Earlier this same deligation had met to the CM on 25 Ocober 2009. The HWF offered to adopt the village so as to provide the area with necessary facilities of healthcare, education and other basic infrastructure, which the area is lacking.
KolKata: The two-day residential state-level workshop on interest-free microfinance of the state W. Bengal was held on 6th & 7th December, 09 at Raigachi in Kolkata. The workshop, first of its kind in W. Bengal, was jointly organized by Human Welfare Foundation, N. Delhi and Jamaat-e-Islami Hind, W. Bengal.
Forty two (42) persons from across W. Bengal participated in the workshop which was addressed by the two resource persons of the Task Force set up by the project VISION 2016 0f Jamaat-e-Islami Hind , Jb. Arshad Ajmal (coordinator, Task Force on microfinance) and Jb. M S Khan(member, Task Force) besides several luminaries of microfinance from W. Bengal such as Mr. Shah Alam, secretary, Amanat Foundation Trust (AFT), Mr. G M Shahid, state project coordinator, AFT and Dr. Manav Sen, civil servant & Director LOKO –Kalyan Parishad, W Bengal.
Jb. Rahmat Ali, President JIH, W Bengal, delivered the inaugural speech.
The workshop discussed all the topics essential for the capacity building of a practitioner such as: Concept of micro-finance; Formation of SHG; Legal Aspect of Multi-state co-operative societies; Techniques of Survey; Experience of the interest-free society, Al-Khair, Patna.
Mr. Arshad Ajmal while giving the outlines of this interest-free microfinance workshop told the participants that the two specific goals of the workshop were to achieve in two days i.e., to prepare a detail Roadmap of establishing microfinance institutes (MFIs) or at least SHGs in W. Bengal and to build the capacities of the participants so that they could conduct the surveys of the areas before launching Micro-Finance centers in their localities.
Mr. Ajmal clarified that the practitioners of this interest-free microfinance would not depend upon the external funding but the Model which is to be followed or practiced will be simply the system of general bank meaning it should be self-sustained. Microfinance is the alternative banking accessing those who are unbankable which consists of four components: Micro-deposit; Micro-credit; Micro-enterprise and Micro-insurance, he informed the participants.
Mr. M S Khan told the audience how microfinance could intervene in the economic system of the country which requires very small steps in the beginning but its effects are great. His deliberations focused around how capitalist economic system, over a period of time, led to a profound poverty and severe dissatisfaction of the needs of many individuals. The capitalist economy made 70% of the population inactive and the role of the poor people in the decision making process has become unimportant. Emphasizing the purpose of Deen-e-Islam he told the audience that when Prophet (pbuh) reached Madinah, he first established the Mosque as well as the Market.
The participants were made aware of the functioning of the interest-free society of Patna , Al-Khair Cooperative Credit Society and the three basic problems usually faced by the practitioners, Mr. A Ajmal told the prospective practitioners, were fund raising, how credit be given and to meet the recurring cost. He suggested the ways to address these three problems.
Mr. Shah Alam, secretary, Amanat Foundation, Kolkata shown his trusts’ activities through power point presentation. He addressed the workshop telling them how AFT was helping the widows by his microfinance center. He said basically Amanat Foundation is a non-profit making, non-govt. social voluntary organization working in the field of social mobilization being a partner of govt. Unicef, DFID, UK and other agencies in country and abroad started its journey in 1994.Amanat’s intervention in SHG-MF programme took place in 2005 as an emergence in responding to the substantial needs of poor and socially excluded section of the community. He informed the workshop that AFT had not emerged as an MFI from the beginning but gradually it turned its motion towards microfinance to work on an integrated approach of social development imperatives.
The project VISION 2016 of Jamaat-e-Islami Hind has choosen Al-Khair model for microfinance practice because of its interest-free nature. This co-operative model of microfinance could be called as Imdaad-e-Bahmi in urdu and follows the rules of Co-operative Credit Society Act of the constitution of India.
The kind of workshop held in W. Bengal would also be organized in all states of the country as planned by the project VISION 2016, told Mr. Arshad Ajmal, coordinator, Task Force on microfinance. At the end of the day, there would be 500 institutes of interest-free microfinance spreading all over the country fighting poverty and hunger in its working areas by providing financial support to poor people for promoting their initiatives also empowering rural poor people for realizing their rights, raising voice and working on various social issues.
At the end of the workshop, the house requested JIH, W. Bengal to form a Coordination Committee for the establishment of Interest-Free Societies all over Bengal.
Guwahati: Aiming at building of a nationwide network of grassroot legal social workers dedicated to using the legal system to defend rights of the underprivileged sections of the society, Association for the Protection of Civil Rights (APCR) organized two training workshops in Assam during 26-27 and 29-30 December 09 at Guwahati and Badarpur respectively. Inaugurating a two days workshop here in Guwahati on 26th December 09, Dr. Shakeel Ahmed, Director, APCR urged that- “there is an urgent need to act beyond celebration of victimhood.” Until, we start using legal mechanism not only defend the underprivileged and oppressed sections of the society but also to bring culprits to the book of law, situation is not going to change, he added. Explaining the rationale of training of para-legal social workers, he argued- this is required for because of three reasons: Firstly, the increasing human rights violations demand enhanced efforts in the field, a group of activist at every level. Secondly, the existing human and civil rights groups are facing dearth of workers, especially the youths. And finally the suffering people need trained facilitators and crisis managers from their own locality and communities to avoid the over dependence on outside initiatives, which very often are not available in critical circumstances. This workshop is the first step to achieve the above mentioned target. Speaking in the workshop, Dr. Shyam Bhadar Mehadi, senior human rights educator and former representative of NHRC in Assam emphasized on the need of human rights education among general masses and asked the participants to carry forward this massage to remotest areas of Assam. A brief overview on Situation of Human Rights in India and how deal with it was presentation by Mahtab Alam, Coordinator, APCR. In his presentation, he informed the participants about various existing mechanism and its optimum utilization. A session on criminal justice system in India dealing with important issues and information relating to First Information Report (FIR), Arrest and Cases, etc. also held, in which Adv. Shanatanu Sarkar of Guwahati High Court, Mr. Ataur Rahman, former IGP of Meghalaya and Mrs. Baharun Saikia, member, Law Commission, Assam interacted with the participants respectively. This session was chaired by Mr. Rohini Kumar Das, Senior Advocate, Guwahati High Court. The workshop dealt with number of conceptual as well as practical aspects of human rights, judicial system, criminal justice, rights of detainees, Extra- ordinary laws and right to information, etc. Others who made their presentations at the workshop include Mr. Waliullah Laskar of Barak Velly Human Rights Protection Committee (BHRPC), I H Borbora, RTI activist. A similar two days workshop held in Badarpur of Barak Velly as well during 29-30th December 09. In both the workshops, more than seventy grassroots workers participated from far flung areas of Assam. Participants have been assigned a ten point follow up program for another six month which deals with conceptual as well as practical works. An ad hoc network of para-legal social workers has been also formed for the period six month.
5 Rikshaw vans were distributed among 5 poor people of Hoogly district of West Benga lon 09/01/2010 The distribution programme was presided over by the president of Jamaat-e-Islami Hind West Bengal in the presence ofRabindranath Vattacharya, MLA of Singur Block, Mr Anil Kola- Secretary of Ma Sarada self helf group, Jb zulfikar Ali Gazi- regional coordinator , vision 2016, Abdul Aziz- State asst secretary ssw JIH WB. Mr Rabinbabu the local MLA highly appreciated the policy of equality in Islam and the policy of self welfare with the welfare of the poor people.He promised to extend his all cooperation in future. Abdul Aziz- asst sec ssw-west Bengal explained and introduced the VISION -2016 under Human Welfare Foundation. Jb Rahmat Ali Khan sb –president of jamaat-e-Islami Hind said,”Due to dicrination and criminalization, people are being deprived from their basic fascilities. We should come forward to sort out all these problems and to stand by the poor people with our own capacity. Allah will not help us if we don’t help the poor.” At last the AGREEMENT papers were signed and the keys of the vans were handed over to the following people:

A Program held on 1 st January 2010 at NAVRAS Hall, 14 Royd Street, Kolkata-16. orgnised by Jamaat e Islami Hind W.B on behalf of Human Welfare Foundation (New Delhi). Scholership given to 27 students for higher studies given scholarship. Above Rs. 2 Lakh both cash & cheque handed over to the students before the media persons. . Ameer e halka Jamaat e Islami Hind W.Bengal jb Rahamat Ali Khan, renouned columnist jb Sayed Ali, Social activist jb Nasir Ahmed, jb Jamil Manzar, Member IDB Jiddah (estern Zone India), Jb Nizam Shamim, IPS chairman Wakf board W Bengal, Jb Qari Fazlur Rahman sb Emam-e-Edain, were present in the Scholarship Distribution Ceremony. Jb Rahmat Ali Khan sb and jb syed Ali sb given a short detail of H.W.Foundation, vision 2016 and its programe and activities and told the audience it is a Umbrella body of social and prominant intelectual. The main field of HWF is education, Health, Women empowerment, economic development of the Muslim community. Other distinguis












