Braille Without Borders

Strong touched by this projoct after I knew Sabriye & Paul and their cute students, how can we image the beauty are feeling the light through their heart instead eyes?!!

People say the blind feel the world with their ear, but Sabriye teach them feel it with their fingers.. they draw the truest pics, smell the colorful flower, use their brightest eyes to see the world...

Sabriye majored in Central Asian, and was the only blind student out of 30,000 to study the Tibetan language, but at that time, there was no Tibetan language in Braile, so she developed her own system using rhythmic spelling translated it into Braille. she was blind when she was 12 years old.. She starts a school for the blind kids in Tibet.

(Per WHO statistics, 161 million persons live with a disabling visual impairment, of whom 37 million are blind and 124 million are persons with low vision. Every 5 seconds someone becomes blind, every minute somewhere a child goes blind. About 90% of them live in developing countries of Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Pacific Regions. 9 out of 10 blind children in developing countries have no access to education.

Braille Without Borders wants to empower blind people from these countries so they themselves can set up projects and schools for other blind people. In this way the concept can be spread across the globe so more blind and visually impaired people have access to education and a better future.

From Braille Without Borders - Projects in Tibet http://www.braillewithoutborders.org/English/index.html )