ROKPA Times November 2017 - The World of ROKPA Children

ROKPA SPIRIT
ROKPA SPIRIT
To see with the heart
Krishna Hari | 21 years old
Together with friends I have been working as
a translator and volunteer in a school for the
blind. There are more than 20 children aged
6 to 18 years old in the school. Most are
completely blind, but some can still recognize
shapes.
The children told me they were sometimes sad that they could not
see the world with their eyes. But they perceive more than sighted
people with their other senses. They also taught me not to always
trust in what I see, but to focus on what I feel in my heart.
Sometimes I wonder if it is not them helping me more than me
helping them. The children, with their often different ‘views’
literally open my eyes.
When I asked them about the place they would most like to go,
they answered that they would like to go to the zoo to listen to the
animals. We will try to fulfil for this wish for them during one of
our upcoming trips.
Krishna Hari (red shirt) – Student and staff of the
ROKPA Women’s Workshop – here in front of the
school for the blind, where he does volunteer work.
To his left is Roshan, also a ROKPA child.
Photos: © Tsering Dawa, Raymond Meier
Dipesh
14 years old
Massive flooding of
August 2017 in Nepal.
People lost their houses,
many even their lives.
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