SPOTLIGHT: Duo's mission to help the blind
PIONEERS: Of the country’s 28 million population, more than 84,000 are estimated to be blind. However, literature for the blind community is scarce, with only eight out of the three million books in the National Library in braille. Nuradilla Noorazam talks to two aspiring individuals who helped kick-start a project to provide braille literature for the blind Mah Hassan and Associates employees Nurhidayah Ibrahim (left) and Sarimah Dollah showing volumes of the braille books in their office. Datuk Mah Hassan Omar who is a lawyer by profession andis a passionate advocate of the blind community Mat Rafi Mohd Zali reads his books by scrolling through the pages with an index finger. The embossed dots on a piece of thick paper are his alphabets, coded to guide the understanding of his surroundings. The 47-year-old was born blind and learnt about the world through his literacy in braille. Now married and having a career to call his own, Rafi embarked on a courageo...