Inclusive Education Project Podcast

Our guest today is Will Butler, Vice-President of Community of the Be My Eyes app. If you haven’t heard of this app yet, we think that you’re going to be blown away when you learn how a small act of kindness can have such a big impact in the lives of blind and low-vision people. Listen in to learn more about this app, the people behind it, who it reaches, and how it stretches across a global community with a bold, yet simple, mission in mind. We hope you come away with the same sense of “wow” as we did! Show Highlights: Will shares the compelling beginnings of the Be My Eyes app., which launched in January 2015. Overnight, more than 10,000 people signed up to volunteer. Today, there are 4.5 million volunteers supporting about 300,000 blind and low-vision people in 185 languages. Most calls only average 2-3 minutes. Will explains the simple process of signing up to volunteer and what an actual call is like from a volunteer’s perspective. Will describes users of the app, which extends far beyond what we