Wayanad Muslim Orphanage

Wayanad Muslim Orphanage - WMO
Motto Respect the child as a person
Type Orphanage
Established 1967
President Bran Kunhabdulla Haji
Students 6000
Address

Kuttamangalam, Mandad (PO), Kalpetta, Wayanad-673122, Kerala, India

E-MAIL ID =, Kalpetta, Kerala, India
Nickname WMO Muttil
Website www.wmomuttil.org

Wayanad Muslim Orphanage (WMO) is an institution based in Wayanad district, Kerala, India. The orphanage is located in Muttil village near Wayanad district headquarters Kalpetta. It includes a school, a college, foster home, crèche, an academy for Islamic studies, and a special school for visually or hearing impaired pupils

WMO was established in 1967 under the leadership of Syed Abdul Rahman Bafaqi with a few children and it now gives food, clothes, shelter and protection to nearly 800 orphans and destitutes. It runs about 20 educational institutions apart from the charity outfits and small scale industrial firms. The orphanage has been playing a vital role in improving the social and economical status of the Muslim community and the society at a whole in Wayanad district. It has ventured out a crusade against dowry system that prevails apparently in the society and has organised several sans dowry wedding fetes in connection to that. This institution is managed and looked after by M.A Mohammed Jamal for over decades.

Motto

"Respect the Child as a Person" is the motto of WMO as it believes that child is the father of man and hence the fate of man depends on the future of children. So that protecting a progressive environment for children is a social responsibility.

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