The Center was established in Amman in the year 1974 by a resolution adopted by the General Conference of the Middle East Committee For Blinds Affairs in Riyadh.

Based on the decision of the Council of Ministers in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia No. 177 dated 20.11.1416 H. (8.4.1996 A.D.) which ruled for attaching the responsibilities of Regional Office of Middle East Committee For Blinds Affairs to the Ministry of Education; and based on the desire of both the Saudi and Jordanian parties to continue providing the best services to blind females, a memorandum of understanding had been prepared in this respect between the Saudi Ministry of Education and the Jordanian Ministry of Social Development. This memorandum was signed on 1.1.1997 by both HE Saudi Minister of Education and HE Jordanian Minister of Social Development and it became effective on 1.1.1997

With the end of the year 2008 the Ministry of Education in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Decided not to renew the memorandum of understanding mentioned above from the beginning of year 2009, but with the great efforts and mediation of charitable people his Royal Highness Prince Nawaf Bin Faisal (May god keep him safe) presented a generous donation to cover half of the operational expenses of the Center for the years 2009-2010.

On the beginning of year 2009 and based on his royal highness donation, the Ministry of Social Development in Jordan and the Embassy of Saudi Arabia in Jordan signed joint record that is active and valid for two years and ends on 31/12/2010 , whereby both sides share equally the operational expenses of the center. Based on that the signed record stated that the share of the Jordanian Ministry of Social Development covers the Jordanian staff salaries and the share of the embassy of Saudi Arabia in Jordan that was donated by his Royal Highness Prince Nawaf Bin Faisal covers all other operational Expenses and costs.

At the beginning of the year 2011 His Royal Highness Prince Sultan bin Fahd bin Abdul Aziz / President of Saudi Arab Federation for Football presented another generous donation that covers the operational expenses and costs of the center for the year 2011 only.

1.To remove illiteracy of blind females and to enable them to read the Holy Quran and to learn the basics of Islam.

2.To train and teach them the basics of reading and writing using Braille method and teaching them the principles of arithmetic with the use of special tools.

3.To rehabilitate the blind females psychologically and socially by means of individual and group direction methods.

4.To develop their social and mental skills to help them adapt and affiliate in the society and to be able to bear responsibility and become independent.

5.To train them on the professions suitable with the nature of their disability (blindness) so that they can find jobs and take part in serving their society. As an example on the suitable professions: telephone exchanges, computers, sewing machines and loom.

6.To provide them with enough information and skills about housekeeping, child-care and family matters.

7.To provide them with means of general cultural development and to encourage those having the ability and desire to pursue their studies as well as providing them with the necessary facilities in this respect.

1-    The Center identifies its services and activities through the various multi media to polarize the blind girls for admission at the Center and to contact the health Centers, social development centers, charities…. Etc.

2-    The Center's employees make field visits to be in close contact with the blind grils health & Social situation to know their ability to join the Center's courses.

3-    Arab blind girls who satisfy the admission conditions have also been admitted at the Center's courses, such as students from Syria, Sudan, Palestine, Yemen, Lebanon, Iraq, Egypt and the Gulf countries.

4-    The Center organizes field visits for employers and submits employment applications for the Center's  graduates to the civil service cabinet, as part of its efforts to avail job  opportunities for the trainees after they finish their study at the Center.

5-    The Center makes available the learning, wear, accommodation, food, health care and transport from and to the Center inside the capital Amman free of charge for all those who join the Center in addition to granting a monthly cash reward for each trainee.

6-    The Center avails the course curricula for the students, as per each student case, either typed through Brile method for blind girls or typed in enlarged form for weak vision students or recorded at cassettes.

7-    The Center makes comprehensive evaluation for visual functions by specialists for weak vision girls to enable it to specify the appropriate visual supporter, train how to use it and provide the suitable educational means to get maximum benefit from the student's visual remains.

8-    The Center has created a private class for students who have other disabilities in addition to the visual disability, as they are specifically & individually followed, in addition to offering all the services related to developing their abilities.

9-    The Ministry of Health has delegated a functional therapeutics specialist to rehabilitate the students to be integrated at the Center's training programs, through concentration on strengthening of precise skills, muscles movement, development of mental & perceptional abilities as well as therapeutic practices as per each student's need after making a comprehensive evaluation for the student and preparing a training program to be in commensurate with her ability to be integrated at the Center's activities and training programs, with special concentration on the students psychological and social aspects. The functional therapy depends upon the cooperation with the psychiatrist and the individual rehabilitation trainer at the Center.

1-    To train to read and write according to Brile Arab and English method so as to enable her to read the books and publications issued in Brile method and to depend upon herself to write reports, correspondence and notes to contact with the world.

2-    To gain skills with regard to move, behave and deal with the surrounding environment inside and outside the Center.

3-    Calculation principles by using the private instruments and systems, as the student gets acquainted with the addition, subtraction, division and multiplication skills so as to help her in her everyday's life, such as shopping, work, ….et..

4-    Home catering, child and family care principles.

5-    To provide special lessons in physical fitness through dependence upon some sport equipment.

6-    To get acquainted with the computer basics in order to join ICDL and other specialized courses.