The Blind and Visually Impaired

Blind girl and Prof Alma

Welcome to Another World!

Paper Houeses Across the Border, IRS approved 501(c)(3) since 2001 and we pay no employees. We support or provide:

Teaches the Blind and Visually Impaired Creates Instructional Material and Learning Games Repairs Braille Machines Teaches Public School Teachers - how to teach the blind Educates the greater community about the blind Creates and teaches courses for families of the blind Advocates for the blind and special needs children Develops and Teaches the Blind and Visually Impaired to Use Specialized Computer Programs

How We Help

Paper Houses provides everything from canes to computers. We provide Perkins Braile machines and paper, training books, manuals, games for the blind, and suppor for Prof. Alma's classes and projects.

Children no longer use broken mop handles as canes. Many of these children received their own brail machines and computers through Paper Houses.

Results tell the story

Thanks to your support, a remarkable transformation is happening. In the past, many blind children were given only 'busy work' in school and received certificates of participation. Today, these students are held to the same academic standards as their sighted peers—completing the same homework, passing the same tests, and earning the same high school diplomas. Some have even gone on to college. Parents and public school teachers now understand what it means to be blind and how to help these children thrive. Your generosity is opening doors to education, independence, and a future filled with opportunity.

Student learning braille
Books and games
Alma with laptops
Teacher training
Sighted students learning
Sighted students learning

👩‍🏫 Professor Alma: Building a Classroom from Nothing

📚 A Start Without Supplies

Professor Alma was trained by the state to teach blind children — but when her assignment began, all she was given was an empty space in a public library. There were no braille machines. No books. No teaching materials. Just bare walls and a mission.

✂️ Handmade Learning Tools

Refusing to wait for help, Alma purchased cardstock and began creating books by hand. She cut and pasted scraps of fabric, cotton, and fur onto each page. These tactile textures became characters and objects in simple, heartfelt stories she narrated aloud — stories her blind and visually impaired students could touch, feel, and understand.

🎲 Games and Imagination

With buttons, wire, and repurposed scraps, she built educational games. Dice, counting tools, and shape boards were all handmade, helping students learn numbers, materials, and patterns — one sense at a time.

🛠️ Repairing and Repurposing

As word spread, church groups and caring individuals donated supplies: a damaged braille machine, plastic braille letters, and small tools. Alma fixed what she could and built the rest. Posters were made. Materials were labeled. Her classroom grew into a world of learning — built with determination, compassion, and creativity.

🌱 Growth and Real Impact

Local schools began allowing children to leave their regular classes on Tuesdays or Thursdays to attend Professor Alma’s specialized lessons. What started as a one-woman effort soon became a transformative education program for blind and visually impaired children.

With the support of Paper Houses Across the Border and Giving Hope Worldwide, her classroom received life-changing resources: Perkins Braille machines, braille paper, children’s books, canes, slates and styluses, teacher’s manuals, games, recorders, laptops, and specialized software.

Paper Houses also funded sight-restoring surgeries for some students — giving a few children the miraculous gift of 20/20 vision.

Professor Alma began training public school teachers to include blind children in regular classrooms. Parents were taught how to support their child’s homework at home. And sighted students were invited to learn what life is like without vision — and how to be thoughtful classmates and friends.

To give her more freedom and protect her from outside interference, Paper Houses helped relocate Professor Alma’s classroom to part of her home.

As more families learn about her incredible work, the need for support continues to grow. There is still a critical need for braille books, specialized computers and programs, medical care, and simple tools like white canes.

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Every Image Is a Real Moment You Made Possible

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Learning Begins — Blind children now receive real academic instruction.

"Why are Americans so wonderful to my child? They've never even seen him, but they did such a wonderful thing! How can I thank them when I cannot find the words?"

– A mother of a blind child, after receiving a donated laptop with specialized software