Agricultural Bank of Egypt Opens Accounts for Bind, Weak-Sighted People for First Time

The   Agricultural Bank of Egypt (ABE) has started to take formalities to make its services available to blind and weak-sighted people its main branches for the first time across the country.

The ABE will offer printed forms in the Braille method of reading to enable clients with special needs who suffer from problems in sighting, to read the forms by their own selves.

The Egyptian Central Bank (ECB) had instructed all banking institutions to provide services to people with special needs.

Alaa Farouk, Chairman of the  ABE, said that providing banking services to blind and weak-sighted people is an original right for them.

The  ABE takes the initiative to provide its banking services to blind and weak-sighted people through contracting the Cultural Center of Al-Nour wa Al-AMAL (  an anthropic society that takes care of blind and weak-sighted people)  and a center specialized in printing in Braille method to print forms of the banking services.

Alaa Farouk indicated that the new services for blind people will be launched at first in Cairo and the capitals of the governorates.

Those services will be available later in all branches of the  ABE including those in the remote villages.

Farouk pointed out that those branches of the EAB that are still under upgrading take into account provide furnishings to facilitate services for the blind and weak-sighted people in light of directives of the Central Bank of Egypt chaired by Tariq Amer.

On his part, Mohamed Redha, Head of the Financial Comprehensive Sector at the  ABE, said that facilitating banking services to the blind and weak-sighted people is an unprecedented initiative in Egypt so far.

He stressed that such a step comes within the keenness of the management of the EAB and the ECB to provide a  comprehensive package of the banking services and introducing them in an easy manner for categories of society.