一位来自德国、名叫萨布利亚·坦贝肯的40岁盲女当选2009年感动中国人物,理由是她作为“盲文无国界”组织创始人,在世界上第一个开发出藏盲文,并于2000年在西藏创办第一所盲校,让100多名盲孩子免费接受教育。《感动中国》推选委员会委员称她为“现代的白求恩”。 A 40-year-old blind woman from Germany named Sablia Tambaker was elected as a Chinese character in 2009 on the grounds that she was the first person in the world to be the founder of Braille Without Borders Braille, and founded the first blind school in Tibet in 2000, freeing more than 100 blind children to education. “Moving China” member of the selection committee called her “modern Bethune.”