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The Visionary.No limits; blind since 12, she wrote a Tibetan

Braille, then moved there to teach it.Though she has been sightless since the age of 12,

Sabriye Tenberken has never lost her vision. She sees the needs of those who share her disability. In the late

1990s, the Bonn native, who was blinded by a congenital degenerative retinal disease, studied for

a master's degree in Tibetology in her hometown. But there was no Braille alphabet for the 42 syllable

characters of that complex Asian language, so she developed one — in just two weeks. "It was a matter of

necessity," she explains. "I had picked Tibet as the country where I later wanted to do development work. Because a Braille system didn't exist, I had no choice but to create one." Clearly, the 34-year-old doesn't let herself get slowed down by what other people might consider obstacles. So it was only natural that she

would take the new Braille sys-tem to the place where it was most needed: Tibet. Although widely regarded

as a mountain paradise, Tibet has twice as much blindness per capita as the global aver-age, due to high altitude and sun exposure. (The proportion of sightless Tibetans is 1 in 70.) Treatment there has

long been hampered by the belief that blindness is a punishment for misdeeds in a previous life.

And so, beginning in 1997, Tenberken traveled the mountain country on horseback with a Tibetan health counselor, crossing treacherous passes and sleeping

in yurts, which were often visited by rats. She was prepared for the rigors of the journey, but less so for what she discovered about the plight of Tibet's blind. "It was depressing," she remembers. "We met kids who had been tied to a bed for years so they didn't hurt themselves. Some couldn't walk because their

parents hadn't taught them."Appalled, Tenberken, with support from her Dutch

partner Paul Kronenberg, a development aid worker she met in 1997 in a hostel in Lhasa (the capital of the

remote Chinese autonomous region), rode to the rescue. She disentangled the reams of red tape the Tibetan authorities threw at her and finally, in May

1998, opened a boarding school for visually impaired children in Lhasa. "We faced a lot of prejudice and

bureaucracy," recalls the woman whose name means "patience" in Turkish (her mom studied in Turkey in

college). "Sometimes it was hell, but I enjoy challenges!"

Fifty pupils have been made welcome at the center, where they learn to read and write Tibetan, Chinese

and English, and also receive vocational training. But their most important lesson is self-reliance. "We want to show the kids that they don't have to be ashamed

of their handy-cap. We want them to stand up and say: 'I am blind, not stupid!"' she says.

Tenberken has a typically straightforward explanation for her extraordinary drive: "Some people have more energy and temperament than others," she muses. "I happen to have a lot of both." And so she does: this

spring, she and her organization, Braille Without Borders, launched a farm some 300 km from Lhasa,

where blind adults are taught animal husbandry, forestry and vegetable cultivation. She wrote a book

about her work, and soon she'll hit the big screen in a documentary called Climb Higher. The film follows her, Kronenberg and six teenagers from the Lhasa school as they accompany Erik Weihenmayer, the first blind climber to summit Mount Everest, on a three-week

climb of Lhakpa Ri, a 7,000-m peak north of Everest. Says producer Sybil Robson Orr: "This isn't just about mountain climbing; it's about proving to the world what blind people can do." Says Tenberken: "There should

be no limits for the blind." She's proof of that. —By Ursula Sautter. With reporting by Jumana

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