Lulu, 6, practices braille, which allows her to read anything from mathematics and scientific equations to music and foreign languages. |
Love is Blind
writer: stephanie kinnunen
photographer: sean gallagher
(story synopsis)
China is home to an estimated
eight million blind people
—the world health organization |
Li Ming (right), 7, listens to sounds made by a nearby computer. She has an awareness of light and can also distinguish shapes and colors.
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A place of refuge exists for 30 visually impaired Chinese orphans. In 2002, Guillaume and Delphine Gauvain realized there was a lack of specialized care for these children and were moved to provide a home and specialized education for them. The Gauvains founded the Bethel Training Center for the Blind (Bethel) and took in their first three blind Chinese orphans in 2003. Now Bethel creates a family-style atmosphere for 30 blind and visually impaired orphans.
Infants up to young adults from 15 different orphanages across China live and learn in Bethel’s loving environment. |
Chun Bin (left), 7, excitedly gets ready to go for a walk. |
Guillaume Gauvain
Bethel Training
Center for the Blind
Quan Fa Garden, Jing Yuan 60
2 Xiang Jiang North Rd.
Chaoyang District 100103
Beijing
China
+86 13 503 24 6707
info@bethelchina.org
www.bethelchina.org
Bethel Training
Center for the Blind
c/o Legacy Charities Inc
710 Moonglow Ave
New Braunfels, TX 78130
USA
Saint Pierre & Miquelon
Impact Bethel SPM
7 Place H.R. Gautier
BP 211
97500 Saint Pierre
Canada |
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