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Mar\u00eda In\u00e9s Aspilcueta\u2019s dream as a young girl was to be a teacher. However, after graduating from high school in Lima, Peru, she had to work to help support her family. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, in her early 20s, she began losing her sight due to glaucoma. By age 26 she had become completely blind, and went into a severe depression which lasted three years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI realized I couldn\u2019t do anything solo. I was in shock,\u201d she says. \u201cI stayed in my room crying, asking, \u2018Why me?\u2019 and wondering why did I have to go through this.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eventually, she heard of and attended the Centro de Rehabilitaci\u00f3n de Ciegos de Lima<\/a> (the Lima Rehabilitation Center for the Blind), where she learned to use a cane to walk, to read and write braille, and to manage other daily activities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI thought I was the only person who had gone blind in life,\u201d Aspilcueta, 39, says. \u201cBut when I got to the center, I realized there were lots of blind people.\u201d From then on, her life began to improve little by little, she says. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The biggest change came when she was invited to learn massage at Casa Bartimeo del Sur, a nonprofit center that teaches massage therapy to low-income blind people. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Father
Father Kyungsu Son, in Roman collar, poses with students, teachers and assistants of Casa Bartimeo during a massage practice in Lima, Peru. (Courtesy of Kyungsu Son\/Peru)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The center, located in a former Maryknoll Sisters convent at Ni\u00f1o Jes\u00fas parish in Ciudad de Dios in the south of Lima, was founded by Grimaldo Zapata<\/a>, who was blinded in a mining accident as a young man, and Maryknoll Father Kyungsu Son. The Maryknoll missioner helps support the Bartimeo center under the auspices of the Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers and the Diocese of Lur\u00edn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Casa Bartimeo<\/a> is named after the blind man, Bartimaeus, who was healed by Jesus in the Gospel of Mark (10:46\u201352).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cCasa Bartimeo is helping people with visual disability so that we can be independen<\/a>t,\u201d says Aspilcueta, who was in the first class at the center in 2013. \u201cInstead of being a burden to our families or society, we can be part of the economic development of the country and our families.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After graduating from the Casa Bartimeo course, Aspilcueta opened her own consulting room<\/a> in a commercial shopping center with two massage tables, employing another Bartimeo graduate to help her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For Father Son, Casa Bartimeo is not just about helping people such as Aspilcueta to become more independent; it\u2019s a ministry to some of the most marginalized people in Peru. His ministry has expanded to address other needs of the blind, such as health issues, and to include a group of people who can see but are often unseen: inmates in the country\u2019s prison system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When Casa Bartimeo first opened, the school needed to find a way to provide students with hands-on practice for certification. Initially, Zapata and Father Son were stumped about where to find enough people to receive therapeutic massages from the program\u2019s 20 trainees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Father Son came up with the solution: a captive audience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Mar\u00eda
Mar\u00eda In\u00e9s Aspilcueta walks to her therapy center, located in a shopping center. Aspilcueta belonged to the first class of blind therapists trained in massage by Casa Bartimeo del Sur. (Lynn Monahan\/Peru)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

He was then chaplain of a men\u2019s prison with 500 inmates, who he realized suffered from stress and other health issues that could be alleviated by massage. The class spent a month providing therapeutic massage to male prisoners without incidents. When the men\u2019s prison closed a year later and the inmates were sent to prisons far from Lima, the Casa Bartimeo students began practicing at a nearby women\u2019s prison.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jorge Luis \u201cLucho\u201d Pel\u00e1ez, who can see and who volunteers when the massage therapists go to the prison, credits Father Son with having the insight to help two groups of people at once: students who need to practice massage techniques and inmates who suffer physically and mentally in prison.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTo be confined is brutal,\u201d Pel\u00e1ez says. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t just hurt their soul or their spirit, it also hurts them physically.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the inmates, the experience is so emotional that both men and women often cry during massage sessions, he says. \u201cThe hands of the student practitioners lift their spirit so that they can endure this intense burden.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Father Son says, \u201cIt\u2019s social and pastoral work, poor blind people helping poor inmates.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Richard Picc\u00f3n, a massage therapist who, like Aspilcueta, was in the first group of massage students, is a part-time auxiliary teacher at Casa Bartimeo. He says he is grateful for the opportunity to help someone else. He tells the story of an inmate whose perspective impacted him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Picc\u00f3n recalls, \u201cAn inmate said to me, \u2018I\u2019m getting out in four years. But Richard, you have a life sentence.\u2019\u201d  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Mar\u00eda
Mar\u00eda In\u00e9s Aspilcueta demonstrates a short massage on her mother, Senaida Mu\u00f1oz. Aspilcueta is able to earn a living thanks to the massage skills she learned after going blind at 26. (Lynn Monahan\/Peru)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

He continues, \u201cI have accepted that. I have a life sentence, because I\u2019m never going to see again. What I have learned during these years is simply gratitude for life, because I\u2019ve met people whom I don\u2019t judge. I don\u2019t think about what they did or didn\u2019t do. I only see human beings who need help and I have the strong sense of knowing I can help them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The massage sessions at the prison are so popular that the center can\u2019t accommodate all the requests. Father Son says that he, Zapata and the rest of the Casa Bartimeo team have come up with a plan. They propose to train the inmates themselves in massage therapy in prison, teaching skills that will also serve them when they are released. Casa Bartimeo will present the proposal to prison officials this spring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe inmates helped the blind, and now we\u2019re returning the favor,\u201d says Father Son, 78, who was ordained a Maryknoll priest in 1979. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Casa Bartimeo isn\u2019t the only place in Lima where blind people can learn massage therapy, says Zapata, but its mission is unique: to help the blind who don\u2019t have the resources for training.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zapata lost his vision at age 25 and says he had to learn to adapt to life without sight. Once he accepted his reality, he won a scholarship to learn Japanese shiatsu massage. Afterward, Zapata began to pursue other forms of massage and physical therapy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Building on his own success, he dreamed of opening a massage training center to help other low-income blind people earn a living. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Blind
Blind students of massage therapy from the Casa Bartimeo training center in Lima practice on inmates at a women\u2019s prison. (Courtesy of Kyungsu Son\/Peru)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

At first, Zapata could not find anyone \u2014 neither in the government nor municipal agencies \u2014 willing to support the project. A friend suggested he approach Father Son.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAnd he told me, \u2018Grimaldo, I\u2019m going to help you,\u2019\u201d Zapata recalls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Father Son, who is originally from South Korea, says it is he who has been helped by the blind. Normally, he says, \u201cthe pastor goes out in search of the sheep, but in this case the sheep, the blind, came to me. It\u2019s the reverse. And they offered me this project to help.\u201d His inspiration, he says, comes straight from the Gospel, adding, \u201cI came to serve.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His reward, he says, is the success of the 180 students trained so far by Casa Bartimeo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aspilcueta recently opened a second massage clinic, with four tables, in the upscale Miraflores section of Lima.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She also accomplished another goal through Casa Bartimeo. Since 2015, she has been an auxiliary teacher at the center, working alongside Zapata and Picc\u00f3n.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMar\u00eda In\u00e9s is an outstanding example of the success of Casa Bartimeo,\u201d Father Son says. \u201cHer skill, her enthusiasm and her compassion are wonderful examples for new students coming in.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n


Featured image: Blind students perform massage therapy during training at Casa Bartimeo del Sur in Lima, Peru. Maryknoll Father Kyungsu Son founded the training center in 2013 with Grimaldo Zapata, who lost his sight in a mining accident. (Nile Sprague\/Peru)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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