Al-Ameen Mission
Al-Ameen Mission is a residential institute for Muslim students located near Howrah, West Bengal, India. Established in 1986 it is now spread across 13 districts of the state with 32 branches. It has 7 thousand residential students now. Here passed about 20 thousands students.
History
The Secretary General of the Mission, M. Nurul Islam , set up the Khalatpur Junior High Madrasa in 1976 when he was still studying his 10th Standard. In May 1984, he started the Institute of Islamic Culture, setting up a hostel for the institute in 1986 in the Madrasa building itself with the collection of one fistful of rice from every home in his village, Khalatpur. In January 1987, it was renamed as Al-Ameen Mission.
Al-Ameen Mission follows the curriculum of West Bengal Board of Secondary Education (WBBSE). It was awarded "The Telegraph School Award for Excellence" which it shared with the South Point High School in 2002.
Activities
As well as being an educational institute, Al-Ameen Mission does charitable works for the Muslim community. It has helped unemployed Muslims with loans and has scholarship programs to help other communities' needy students.
On 19 May 2015, Al-Ameen Mission received Banga Bhushan Award.
Funding
The mission is mostly run by donation and zakat. Muslims throughout the country contribute their zakat to the Mission, which takes care of 25% of seats reserved for poor, destitute and orphans. It has received funding from many sources such as Pataka Industries Pvt. Limited, the Maulana Azad Education Foundationand the West Bengal Wakf Board.
Campus
The main campus of Mission, Al-Ameen Mission for Boys, is located at Khalatpur, Howrah. It comprises about 45 bighas of land. It consists of a five-storey boys' hostel building, a three-storey school building and a three-storey administrative building with a guest house and health centre. There is a mosque inside the hostel building. It now has about 1115 students, with a residential staff of 200, and a part-time and non-residential staff of 50. & The other campus in Khalisani,Uluberia,Howrah
Management
The main campus of Mission, Al-Ameen Mission
Teachers of Al-Ameen
Al-Ameen Mission has a good number of permanent teachers as well as visiting teachers from some reputed schools and colleges. The visiting teachers have shown passion of education beyond traditional teaching territories, as some them become long term associates of Al-Ameen to nurture the talents from the backward minorities. Of all the visiting teachers Prof. Mrinal Kanti Dowari known for being the authoring standard textbooks of higher secondary physics in west bengal remain an withstanding legacy to the Al-Ameen students. Despite most of the permanent teachers in Al-Ameen lacked what it takes to be an outstanding educator or orator during the golden age of Al-Ameen i.e. 2000 -2006(duration when the institution can be considered to have come of age), the dedication was notable regardless of their stature and meagre pay. And the students testimonials speaks out that loud. The success of Al-Ameen students is not just the success of the school but the enduring triumph of the devotion of the teachers to the most well known educational movement among bengali Muslims in recent times. However, there are few teachers which needs to be mentioned for the unequivocal support to the side of the students, be it educational, sentimental,inspirational or motivational. Dr. Mosarraf Hossain, Amir Hossain, Harun Halder, Madat Ali, S.Zakaria, Saidul Islam, KMZ et al. were the patrons. Many says has these teachers were not there, Al-Ameen would have been known a lot differently. And to a big extent Dr.Mosarraf Hossain can be safely assumed to be the role model of the students by popular judgement. Dr.Hossain and Saidul Islam have left Al-Ameen shortly after 2006 to start new chapters of educational movement among bengali Muslims. Dr.Hossain has started Educare Institution for grooming the dream of students in higher studies which is now grouped with AshSheefa Group founded by Dr.Hossain, Dr.Farukuddin Purkait, Farhad Ahmed, all Al-Ameen alumni.
Branches
1.Al-Ameen Mission for Boys & Girls, khalatpur, Udaynarawanpur, Howrah
2.Al-Ameen Mission for Boys & Girls, Belpukur, Dakshin Dinajpur.
3.Al-Ameen Mission for Boys & Girls, Patharchapri,Birbhum near the shrine of Hazrath Data Mahboob Shah Wali.
4.Rahmania Academy for Boys & Girls, Dhulian, Murshidabad.
5.Al-Ameen Mission for Boys, Panchur, Kolkata
6.Al-Ameen Mission Academy for Boys, Nayabaz (Santragachhi)
7.Al-Ameen Mission for Boys & Girls, Uluberia, Howrah.
8.Al-Ameen Mission Akademy for Boys & Girls, Memary, Burdwan.
9.Al-Ameen Mission for Boys, Burdwan.
10.Al-Ameen Mission Academy for Boys & Girls, Midnapore.
11.Al-Ameen Mission Academy for Boys & Girls, Surjopur, 24 Parganas(S).
12.Al-Ameen Mission Academy for Boys $ Girls, Chapra, Nadia
13.Al-Ameen mission Academy for Boys,Malda
and etc.
alameenmission.org
External links
- http://www.islamicvoice.com/February2006/CommunityInitiative
- our central website
- Official Website
- Video on al-ameen mission