App becomes eyes for thousands of visually impaired

Be My Eyes, an award winning app which was launched by Hans Jorgen Wilberg (55),  a Danish furniture maker with a simple idea, a blind or visually impaired person needs help with a task,  the app makes a live video call to a sighted volunteer, who can tell them if the milk has expired or check the label on their medication or help them find the cash they have dropped on the floor.

The app has changed eased the lives of 113, 000 visually impaired people in 150 countries.

“It proves there are lot of good people out there. In the first week several volunteers signed up, we had to change the server three times. The app has 90,234 British volunteers for 4,247 blind and low-vision users. ” said Hans Jorgen who launched the app in 2015 after gradually losing his own sight.