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| Motto | Respect the child as a person[1] |
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| Type | Orphanage |
| Established | 1967 |
| Founders | Marhoom K.P Haji,Neelikkandy Kunji Pokker Haji |
| President | K K Ahammed Hajiu |
| Students | 6000 |
| Address | Kuttamangalam, Mandad (PO), Kalpetta, Wayanad-673122, Kerala, India , , , |
| Nickname | WMO Muttil |
| Website | www |
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Wayanad Muslim Orphanage (WMO) is a charitable institution based in Wayanad district, Kerala, India.The orphanage is located in Muttil village near Wayanad district headquarters Kalpetta. It runs about 20 educational institutions apart from the charity outfits and small scale industrial firms. 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 as a branch of the Mukkam Muslim Orphanage. As of 2007 gives food, clothes, shelter and protection to nearly 1,100 orphans and destitutes. In an article about its 40th anniversary in 2007, The Hindu wrote that 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.[2] It has criticized the 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 General Secretary M.A Mohammed Jamal for over decades. The current vice-president is Mayan Manima and Muhammed sha Master.Treasurer is P P Abdul kader. [3][4]
- ^ "Charity is their business. And the business is good". Tehelka. New Delhi. 30 June 2014.
- ^ "Orphanage celebrating 40th anniversary". The Hindu. 28 February 2007. ProQuest 287240290.
- ^ Abdul Basith, Wayanad Muslim Orphanage organizes mass wedding, TwoCircles.net, 13 May 2012
- ^ 53 couples tie the knot at mass marriage in Wayanad, The Hindu, thehindu.com, 15 May 2009