New Delhi: Jamaat-e-Islami Hind (JIH) president Syed Sadatullah Husaini launched a children website https://cio-india.org/ at the JIH headquarters here on Wednesday.

This is the official website of the Children Islamic Organization (CIO) floated by JIH under the supervision of JIH vice-president S. Ameenul Hasan, with educationist Syed Tanveer Ahmed as CIO secretary and Khan Mubashshira Firdous, a college principal, as CIO assistant secretary. Several senior functionaries of the JIH were present in the website’s inauguration.

CIO, whose membership is open to children aged between 5 to 14 years of age, has been set up to inculcate a deep sense of love and reverence for Allah and Prophet Mohammed (peace be upon him), incorporate moral values, encourage and strengthen belief/aqeeda to create awareness about living a collective life to establish ‘deen’ in collective and individual life.

Other aims of the organization are to assist student in improving their academic standards, identifying and cultivating talents among children.
While the organization will have its own leaders from among the children as its members and run by kids only, they will have adult persons as guides and mentors because 5-14 age group are not able to properly understand things and work for their welfare. CIO leaders will be assisted by mentors in their day to day functioning.

There will be joint activity for kids up to 10 years. The gender segregation will be introduced for activities for children above 10 years of age. The mentors would be of gender corresponding to the children’s gender, after segregation of classes and activities.

So, CIO is an organization where children can mix up with each other, develop leadership skill, and how to be kind and helpful to others and develop skill. CIO, in effect, will take away children from loneliness and too-much obsession with internet on mobile phones and introduce children to the real world. The programs are designed according to the needs of the children.

Jamaat-e-Islami Hind president Syed Sadatullah Husaini (third from left) clicking the button to launch the children’s website at JIH headquarters on March 6, 2024. Others in the picture from Left to Right: JIH vice-president Malik Moatasim Khan, CIO assistant secretary Mubashshirah Firdous, JIH secretary general T. Arif Ali, JIH vice-president and CIO supervisor S Ameenul Hasan, CIO secretary Syed Tanveer Ahmed and JIH vice-president Prof. Salim Engineer.