The Doha Center for Interfaith Dialogue organized a course for the blind

28 Mar The Doha Center for Interfaith Dialogue organized a course for the blind

The Doha International Center for Interfaith Dialogue has organized, in collaboration with Al Noor Center for the Blind, a course in the Art of Dialogue on 5 March 2019.

The course included the students of the integration of boys for the preparatory and secondary levels, 22 students have been trained under the supervision of the director of the integration program, Mr. Mohamed Saad al-Kuwari and a number of teachers and specialists in Al Noor Center which has also translated the training booklet into Braille, in addition to providing special equipment that help the blind to print and read during training.

Khalifa School for Boys hosted this one-day course including various theoretical and practical exercises with which students interacted positively.

For his part, Mr. Yousif Abdullah Al-Subaie, Executive Director of the Doha International Center for Interfaith Dialogue, said that this session is part of the Center’s mission to spread the culture of dialogue in society, especially among young people, stressing the importance of instilling the value of dialogue in the minds of children from an early age.

Al-Subaie added that cooperation between the Doha International Center for Interfaith Dialogue and the Al-Noor Institute for the Blind is a new fruit of the dialogue. Today, we are strengthening the capabilities of a distinguished group of our people. We encourage them to dialogue and interaction with society and to integrate with various academic and social activities, and deeper and more sophisticated programs.

Mr. Mohammed Al-Kuwari highly praised the workshop which met the students’ need for dialogue skills, and has contributed in enhancing their social communication skills with others.
Ms. Nadia Al Ashqar, Director of Conferences at the Doha International Center for Interfaith Dialogue, pointed out that the cooperation with Al Noor Institute has opened new horizons for dialogue and expressed her satisfaction regarding the interaction of the participating students.

The workshop was conducted by Qatari trainer Fatma Abdul Aziz Al-Harami, who stressed during the workshop that the individual is the building block of the family and the family building the community and society building the nation, and that the nations do not promote only the arms of youth, hence the importance of building an effective individual in society to benefit It benefits and contributes to its advancement. She added that we should respect and appreciate these students, which are not different from others.

The course included a number of main themes, namely, the active individual’s active salary in the community. The trainer then stopped with the topic of building relationships. She trained students to build and maintain relationships with others, focusing on the underlying wisdom and the urgent question: Why are we different from one another?