Braille Without Borders (BWB) is an international organisation to develop and teach not yet existent Braille scripts for languages in developing countries, founded by Sabriye Tenberken and Paul Kronenberg in 1998 in Lhasa, Tibet. PREMIER - first The braille system, named after Louis Braille, is a method that is widely used by blind people to read and write. ... Sabriye Tenberken (* 1970 near Bonn, Germany) is a German socialworker and foundress of the organisation Braille Without Borders BWB // Biography Sabriye became gradually visually impaired and completely blind by the age of thirteen due to retinal disease. ... 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ... Lhasa prefecture-level city in Tibet Autonomous Region Lhasa (Tibetan: ལྷ་ས་; Wylie: lha-sa; Simplified Chinese: 拉萨; Traditional Chinese: 拉薩; pinyin: Lāsà), sometimes spelled Llasa, is the traditional capital of Tibet and the capital of the Tibetan Autonomous Region of the Peoples Republic of China. ... Tibet (older spelling Thibet; Tibetan: བོད་, Bod, pronounced pö in Lhasa dialect; Chinese: 西藏, Pinyin: Xīzàng or Chinese: 藏区, Pinyin: Zàngqū [the two names are used with different connotations; see Name section below]) is a region in Central Asia and the home of the Tibetan people. ...

Formerly known as the Project for the Blind, Tibet in September 2002 the project adopted the name Braille Without Borders.

Schools and centres

The first centre, a school for blind Tibetan children, was established in Lhasa in 1997. Lhasa prefecture-level city in Tibet Autonomous Region Lhasa (Tibetan: ལྷ་ས་; Wylie: lha-sa; Simplified Chinese: 拉萨; Traditional Chinese: 拉薩; pinyin: Lāsà), sometimes spelled Llasa, is the traditional capital of Tibet and the capital of the Tibetan Autonomous Region of the Peoples Republic of China. ...

A second centre, a farm and cheese factory, for the vocational training of adults has been established 270km west of Lhasa near Shigatse. Lhasa prefecture-level city in Tibet Autonomous Region Lhasa (Tibetan: ལྷ་ས་; Wylie: lha-sa; Simplified Chinese: 拉萨; Traditional Chinese: 拉薩; pinyin: Lāsà), sometimes spelled Llasa, is the traditional capital of Tibet and the capital of the Tibetan Autonomous Region of the Peoples Republic of China. ... Shigatse (Tibetan: གཞིས་ཀ་རྩེ་; Wylie transliteration: Gzhis-ka-rtse; Modified Wiley: gzhi-ka-rtse; pinyin (Tibetan): Xigazê; Chinese: 日喀则; pinyin: Rìkāzé, Zhigatse [Zhi-ga-tse], and Xigatse) is the second largest city in Tibet with a population of 80,000. ...

A future International School for Development and Project Planning (ISDeP) is being developed at Kalliyoor on the Vellayani lakeside about 10km from Trivandrum, the capital of Kerala, India. Indian Coffee House Thiruvananthapuram or Thiruvanathapuram (formerly known as Trivandrum) is the capital (population - 889,191 (2001)) of the state of Kerala, India. ... Kerala ((?); Malayalam: കേരളം — ) is a state on the tropical Malabar Coast of southwestern India. ...

References

Literature

• Sabriye Tenberken, My Path Leads To Tibet, Arcade Publishing, 2003, ISBN 1-55970-658-9
• Sabriye Tenberken, The Seventh Year - From Tibet to India (late 2006 or early 2007)

Films/Talk Shows

• 2000 Documentary film about the project, for which Sabriye Tenberken receives the Charity Award Bambi
• August 2005 talk show for CCTV 9 in Beijing, China
• October 2005 guest on Oprah Winfrey's talk show

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External links

• Braille Without Borders Official Website
• Braille Without Borders International School for Development and Project planning (ISDeP)