On Wednesday 15 July at 10:30 am, the Director General of the Prison Administration received a Murid Institute delegation made up of Imam Khadim Ndiaye and Cheikh Fatma Mbacké, accompanied by S. Moustapha B. Mbacké for logistics.
The Director General was joined by two of his department heads. Discussions focused on Murid Institute's contribution to the rehabilitation and reintegration of inmates through the donation of books for prison libraries.
Points discussed and agreed
- Presentation of Murid Institute and of the association's motivations for contributing to the rehabilitation and reintegration of inmates.
- The Director General and his colleagues welcomed the gesture and expressed their satisfaction at this answer to the need of prison libraries.
- The Director General asked the Institute to submit a request for access to all prison facilities, for this kind of action as well as for sermons.
A long-term effort
This meeting is part of Murid Institute's 2026 initiative: collecting more than 200 books (Quran, hadiths, Islamic sciences, works by Cheikh Ahmadou Bamba and other useful books, in Arabic and French) for Senegal's prison libraries.