Dawa Tsering (1st R) plays with friends after class at the Tibetan Children's Braille School in Lhasa, capital of southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, Oct. 10, 2013. (Xinhua/Zhang Cheng &Liu Kun)

The Tibetan Children's Braille School sits in a traditional Tibetan yard on Jiangsu Road in Lhasa. The school was founded by a blind German woman Sabriye Tenberken and her Dutch husband Paul Kronenberg in 1998. It developed from a rehabilitation and training center into a preparatory school for blind children.

Blind children in the Tibet did not have much access to education years ago. Most of them led a life on the margin of the society with few chances of integration. That's why Sabriye and Paul decided to stay in Lhasa to help those children. Their value lies not only in teaching blind children cultural knowledge and manual skills, but also in providing them with the belief that they can live a happy life, having their own ideal and fulfilling their dream through efforts. There are 6 teachers and over 40 children in the school.

Dawa Tsering, a 14-year-old child who suffers from congenital blindness, is one of them. In spite of the disease, Dawa is a brilliant boy as any normal children can be. He can speak three languages fluently: Chinese, Tibetan and English. He acts as a leader both in studies and in games with his friends. He helps his teacher and classmates do washing and cleaning. He can walk in and out the classroom and dormitory without any help.

Dawa has a dream: he wants to be an English teacher. He wishes that he can be admitted to a regular school in his hometown in Xigaze after graduation from the braille school next year. Dawa is happy from within. He never treats blindness as a curse or an obstacle. He knows deeply that blindness is not to the eye but to the mind. As long as a man opens his mind to imagine and to dream, his world is filled with light. (Xinhua/Zhang Cheng &Liu Kun)

Dawa Tsering (L) talks with a teacher after class at the Tibetan Children's Braille School in Lhasa, capital of southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, Oct. 11, 2013. (Xinhua/Zhang Cheng &Liu Kun)

Dawa Tsering reads a text book in class at the Tibetan Children's Braille School in Lhasa, capital of southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, Oct. 11, 2013. (Xinhua/Zhang Cheng &Liu Kun)

Dawa Tsering reads English in class at the Tibetan Children's Braille School in Lhasa, capital of southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, Oct. 11, 2013. (Xinhua/Zhang Cheng &Liu Kun)

Dawa Tsering Dawa Tsering (1st L) plays with friends after class at the Tibetan Children's Braille School in Lhasa, capital of southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, Oct. 11, 2013. (Xinhua/Zhang Cheng &Liu Kun)

Dawa Tsering (2nd L) helps carry dishes at the Tibetan Children's Braille School in Lhasa, capital of southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, Oct. 12, 2013. (Xinhua/Zhang Cheng &Liu Kun)

Editor: Lucia Su