In a house behind the Peace Hotel in Lhasa live 17 blind Tibetan children. Every morning, they have a class in typing, and after class, they play football and other games led by their teachers.
Playtime is their happiest hour, and their laughter resounds in the courtyard.
The blind children are beneficiaries of the Program for Tibetan Blind Children, which helps the children learn Tibetan Braille. Sabriye has been blind from birth, but she worked hard with indomitable will and was finally enrolled in the Department of Middle-Asian Studies at Bonn University, with her specialty in Tibetan Studies. In 1992 and 1993, she combined the six-dot Braille system with the Tibetan language and invented a Tibetan Braille. Now, for the first time, blind persons of the Tibetan ethnic group can read. In May 1997, Sabriye arrived on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.