2. • Name:
Sabriye Tanberken
• Born:
In 1970, In Germany
• Disease:
Blind because of a retinal disease ,
totally blind by the age of 13.
3. • StudiedTibeta and the Tibetan language at Bonn
University and created Tibetan Braille.
• She studied modern and classical Tibetan in combination
with Sociology and Philosophy.
• Opened her own school, she founded the Centre for the
Blind in Lhasa, the capital of Tibet, to educate blind
people. Before, the blind had not been able to attend
school.
• She developed her own methods of studying the course of
studying.
4. • Raised money for the project by selling her
autobiography.
• Create the Tibetan Braille, in September 2002 the project
adopted the name Braille Without Borders.
• Sabriye Tenberken and her partner Paul Kronenberg also
started a new initiative in Trivandrum, Kerala, South of
India named kanthari.
• Is also the author of three books:
"My path leads to Tibet“
“Tashis neue Welt
“Das siebte Jahr” ("The seventh year")
5.
6. • This woman teach us that there is no
limit to continue moving forward, and
if we want something we can do it ,
we only have to give our best and
always think positive.