Al-Ameen Mission
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Al-Ameen Mission is a residential institute for Muslim students located near Howrah, West Bengal, India. Established in 1986 with eleven students, it now has 2000 students, more than 800 alumni and 200 teaching and non-teaching staff. It is notable for helping the Muslim community students in West Bengal.
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[edit] 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.
[edit] 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.
[edit] 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 Foundation,Ministry of Minority Affairs(W.B.) and the West Bengal Wakf Board.
[edit] 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.
[edit] Branches
Al-Ameen Mission for girls, Khalatpur, Howrah was started in 2000. It is located near the main branch itself, comprising about 15 bighas of land. It consists of a three-storey hostel building and a three-storey school building. It has 350 students.
After realising the need to reach more people, sister branches were set up in other districts of West Bengal. Al-Ameen Mission for Boys, Belpukur, Dakshin Dinajpur (North Bengal branch, up to class 12) was established in 2001 for the benefit of educationally backward people of North Bengal. In 2002 it set up another branch: the Al-Ameen Mission for Boys & Girls, Patharchapri, Birbhum is located in the district of Birbhum near the holy shrine of Hazrath Data Mahboob Shah Wali (RA).
Study Circle is a branch of Al-Ameen Mission for West Bengal JEE (Med/Engg) and WBCS (West Bengal Civil Services) coaching and is located at Park-Circus High School, Kolkata.
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