Be My Eyes is a free mobile app with one main goal: to make the world more accessible for blind and low-vision people. The app connects blind and low-vision individuals with sighted volunteers from all over the world through a live video call.
The free smartphone app for iOS and Android connects blind and low vision users with sighted volunteers for visual assistance through a live video connection. In more basic terms, it allows users to have a sighted person on demand through video chat - this is where volunteers come in. As a sighted volunteer you can help just by installing the Be My Eyes app. A blind or a low-vision user may need help with anything from checking expiry dates, distinguishing colors, reading instructions or navigating new surroundings.
Register to this activity, download the app, and log your hours for this online volunteering activity through your gradintel. Any time you take a video call to assist a blind or low vision person, you should log these hours - rounding up to the nearest fifteen minutes.
“It's my hope that by helping each other as an online community, Be My Eyes will make a big difference in the everyday lives of blind people all over the world.”
– Hans Jørgen Wiberg, Founder of Be My Eyes