AFTAB RAHIMA WELFARE TRUST:SOCIAL & PHILANTHROPIC activities of ISLAM GROUP are mainly concentrated in Bhagalpur-Bajitpur areas and located in Kishoreganj district. Geographically the area sits in the Sylhet-Kishoregonj Haor system.
For many generations the ISLAM GROUP lived here where their roots are deeply entrenched. Islam Family felt that their social obligations primarily to the place and people where they belonged so as to bring about some qualitative changes in their day to day lives.

This being the legacy the Islam Family took up as a challenge which for the last three generations they are confronting to transform their dream into a reality.
Financed entirely out of resources of ISLAM GROUP, the approaches and the activities of the Family are mainly responsive reaction to the need for the people aiming at education, health care and alleviation of poverty. The Family does not believe in so-called charity and abhors its unplanned practices. The various philanthropic and social activities and approaches which Islam Group initiates or encourages are through self-help and participatory practices. The social and philanthropic works of Islam Group are guided mainly through AFTAB RAHIMA WELFARE TRUST


JAHURUL ISLAM MEDICAL COLLEGE & HOSPITAL
NURSES TRAINING INSTITUTE
EDUCATION COMPLEX
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The above institutions have been planned to serve all section of people by providing essential Medicare through its Hospital, a Medical College for degree level professional education in surgical and medicinal science and a Nurses’ Training Institute. In the first phase in 1989, a 250 bed HOSPITAL was put into service. It is equipped with most modern instruments and facilities, offering round the clock services including emergencies for indoor as well as outdoor patients. In its final and ultimate phase of completion, the Hospital will have 1200 beds to provide management and services of all aspects of medicinal,

surgical or emergency requirements. Because of its own uniqueness, Bhaglapur and its rural settings provided an ideal location for establishing the Medical College. With a large hospital, abundantly equipped with modern tools and instruments, excellent infrastructure and institutional facilities, a Medical College of high national standard became a natural consequence. Eventually, 26 August 1992 saw the birth of Jahurul Islam Medical College as a full residential institution. The College is entirely self contained with its own buildings.
housing all departments, laboratories, library, pathology, museum, dissection hall, gallery, lecture theaters, cafeteria, conference-cum-examination hall and separate hostels for accommodation of students of either sex. Indeed, the idyll serenity of the Campus provide a congenial environment for modern method of teaching and learning. The College is affiliated and approved institution of Dhaka University and Bangladesh Medical & Dental Council (BMDC). The Nurses’ Training Institute was set-up in 1989 to ensure availability of trained professional nurses for the hospital as well as the country. The Institute has the approval of Bangladesh Nursing Council and the Directorate of Nurses Services (DNS).
Presently the Hospital has 300 IPD Beds for different surgical and clinical procedures. It is equipped with three spacious air conditioned Operation Theaters capable of running simultaneous surgeries. Its Out Patient Departments (OPD) are visited by an average of 600 patients daily.
There are 95 Doctors on full time employment and another 35 Doctors are serving as Visiting Consultants. The Medical College has now a strength of 270 students which the Nursing Training Institute has 100 students on the roll. The Hospital, the College and the Institute have been set-up in a beautifully landscaped terrain. Because of its unique settings, the students of the medical college are specially trained and motivated to be emotionally more close to the poor and other disadvantaged classes of the society.
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JAHURUL ISLAM EDUCATION COMPLEX
To bring about qualitative improvement in general education, ISLAM GROUP have been training to provide good and comprehensive education to the pupil of the area and also ensuring the atmosphere needed for their comprehensive development. The institutions under control of ISLAM GROUP endeavors to mould and build its pupils not only proficient in studies but also imparting training so as to make them better persons. Lot of emphasis is laid on ethical and religious studies and practices. Particular emphasis and attentions are provided for teaching of English in all the schools. JIEC has under its responsibility six Higher Secondary Schools and one Orphanage-cum-Madrasha at Dhaka (Mirpur). Out of these, three schools are exclusively for girls students. The location of these institutions are within 2 - 4 km from each other in Bajitpur Thana. The ultimate thinking of Islam Group to turn Bhagalpur-Bajitpur into center of modern education and culture, comprising of Schools, Colleges, fully residential (Cadet - Type) College and medical University. Away from the unrest and prevailing sociopolitical scenario of the country, these institutions are intended to provide an ideal environment for education in the country. The education city which would grow-up at Bhagalpur-Bajitpur will ultimately comprise of Schools, Colleges, Studies in medical sciences and an University with bias towards applied sciences and natural and human resource development and management. A large portion of land in Bhagalpur remains flooded for a large part of the year. In this portion, experiments in hydroponics, agriculture, pisciculture, crocodile farming and the likes can be undertaken as part of faculty activity as well as on commercial basis. The advisory services are to come from universally reputed institutions, the Harvard University and the well-known autonomous research organization, the Winrock International based in the United States of America. Several prominent
personalities of the institutions have expressed their willingness to arrange assistance for organizing Natural Resource Development and management faculty in the proposed University. Already, Islam Group is in contact with a number of eminent Harvard University Professors. They have most graciously agreed to provide necessary technical assistance and make efforts to arrange all other assistance from overseas institutions. The proposed University with its emphasis on science and natural resources and human resources development in the country will introduce a new dimension in our higher
education philosophy and to some extent relieve the pressure on the Dhaka and other national Universities. The courses of studies will be so designed as to integrate more concepts in science and technology and give due importance to applied sciences, development of natural and human resources and their management. Establishment of a University at Bajitpur is the most ambitious program of Islam Group targeted for implementation in the near future. Already there have been member of exchanges in this regard including important and significant visitations to and from abroad. It is expected that the concept of Islam Group will grow into a model which will eventually catch the imagination of the people and its influence spread far and wide. This will in turn usher in a new and promising era for Bangladesh.
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