Mr.S.M.A.Jinnah

Founder

Founder of Indian Association for the Blind (IAB)

Mr.S.M.A.Jinnah is the founder of Indian Association for the Blind (IAB) (1985)[1], an Indian non-profit working on disability and education from Madurai.

Indian Association for the Blind (IAB)

Indian Association for the Blind was founded in 1985 by S.M.A. Jinnah, himself visually impaired, starting with four students in a rented room. It now runs over 24 projects in education, vocational training and employment placement from Madurai, and reports having educated and rehabilitated more than 30,000 visually challenged people, with a focus on rural Tamil Nadu.

Indian Association for the Blind (IAB) reports the following, on its own site:

30,000+ lives transformed overall
25,000+ youth empowered through skill training; 6,000+ successful job placements; 10,000+ children reached through Project School
7,000+ lives transformed with assistive devices; 800+ elderly supported