Braille without limits
Braille Without Borders (Engl. Origin of the name Braille Without Borders (BWB)) is an international organization for the blind in developing countries . It was founded in 1998 in Lhasa , Tibet by Sabriye Tenberken and Paul Kronenberg . Its aim is to provide theoretical and practical skills to blind people in developing countries. Teaching Braille is of central importance. In addition, a Braille language code is to be developed for those languages for which Braille is not yet available.
history
Originally known as the Project for the Blind, Tibet , the organization was renamed Braille Without Borders in September 2002 . A sponsorship group in Germany and a foundation in Switzerland support the project.
Schools and centers
Tibet Autonomous Region
- School for the blind : The first center, a school for blind Tibetan children, was established in 1997 in Lhasa , the capital of Tibet .
- Massage center : Clinical massage center set up and operated in Lhasa by blind masseurs.
- Vocational Training Farm : a second center, a farm and cheese dairy for the vocational training of blind adults, was set up in Pelshong , 270 km west of Lhasa , near Samzhubzê .
At the beginning of August 2017, it became known that the Chinese authorities' cooperation had surprisingly ended without giving any reason.
India
- Leh, information office : An information office for the blind and relatives has been opened in Leh , Ladakh , India . Land was also bought in Leh in order to set up a training center for the blind of Ladakh.
- ISDeP : The International School for Development and Project Planning (. English International School for Development and Project Planning ) is in Kalliyoor at Vellayani km -See about 10 of Trivandrum , the capital of the Indian state of Kerala , furnished.
credentials
literature
- Sabriye Tenberken: My path leads to Tibet: the blind children of Lhasa. Complete New paperback edition, Knaur, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-426-78152-4 .
- Sabriye Tenberken: Tashi's New World. A blind boy shows us Tibet. Dressler, Hamburg 2000, ISBN 3-7915-1998-0 . (Awarded the "Foresight Prize for Socially Committed Photographers and Journalists" 2003)
- Sabriye Tenberken: The seventh year. From Tibet to India. 2nd edition, Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2006, ISBN 3-462-03691-2 .
Movies / talk shows
- 2000: Documentary film With different eyes about the BWB project. Won a Bambi
- August 15, 2005: Sabriye and Paul were guests on a talk show for CCTV 9 in Beijing , People's Republic of China
- October 17, 2005: Sabriye was a guest on the Oprah Winfrey show about important female figures 8 Women Oprah Wants You to Know Phenomenal Females: Sabriye Tenberken's Journey
- 2006: Documentary Blindsight
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Tibet: German school for the blind is threatened with closure. In: Spiegel Online . August 1, 2017. Retrieved August 2, 2017 .
- ↑ A renowned Tibetan school for the blind 'is being threatened with closure'. In: The China Post . August 2, 2017, accessed August 2, 2017 .