Dakwah Strategies and Challenges for the People With Disabilities (PWD) in Singapore

The obstacles and challenges faced by People With Disabilities (PWDs) or Orang KurangUpaya (OKU). It is not surprising that some survive with a thousand miseries, which leads to mental and emotional stress. It happens in schools, the workplace as well as within the social circle where PWDs encounter acceptance, recognition, and treatment barriers. These issues bring about a severe impact where PWDs deprived of opportunities to enjoy educational, career and societal achievements that could be proud. Not only that, but opportunities to achieve in the religious sector are also lacking. This research presents the opinions and voices of PWDs in relation to their real situation they are experiencing and their hopes that the able-bodied members of the society synergize their efforts to assist them in overcoming the challenges with strong will and aspiration and faith through dakwah management programs under one roof specifically to the visually impaired such as learning the Quran using braille and other Islamic knowledge. Dakwah challenges for PWDs come from internal and external factors. Internal factors being low self-esteem leading to a lack of confidence in executing Islamic values whereas external factors include societal attitude and government policies.