Be My Eyes is a free app that allows blind and partially sighted people to demand volunteers for visual support.

Be My Eyes, which is available on both iOS and Android platforms since launching in 2015. The app is available in 120 languages and in more than 150 countries. At present more than 100,000 blind and partially sighted people have downloaded the app.

The registered users can connect to more than two million sighted volunteers around the world at any time in the day or night for support, by pointing their smartphone camera at the object they need help to see.

Thus, through a live video call, the volunteers assist the user by providing visual assistance for daily tasks. These volunteers will be selected by matching the native / required languages.

The following types of tasks are usually demanded from sighted volunteers around the world
1. Search for fallen or lost objects.
2. Describe images, paintings, or other artistic pieces.
3. Match or describe colors.
4. Read labels.
5. Fix IT issues.
6. Buy groceries.
7. Identify the expiration date of food products.
8. Getting acquainted with new surroundings or moving around a new space.
9. Distinguish between different objects.
10. Discern the arrival and departure of public transport.
In 2018, Be My Eyes have added a service called Specialized Help that lets users contact businesses with enquiries about their products and services.

Specialized Help

Through Specialised Help, users can also make calls directly to partnering companies. The call works exactly like regular Be My Eyes call, but instead of being connected to a random volunteer, users with sight loss are connected to a company representative, who can assist with requests concerning their specific products or services. Microsoft was the first company to join this service, followed by Google.

If you want to be a user/ volunteer >>> download the Be My Eyes application for free which currently available at:

"Freerice" is an educational trivia game

"Freerice" is an educational trivia game that supports enhancing English vocabulary online while earning food for hungry people around the world. Every correct word , it adds 10 grains of rice for the World Food Programme (WFP) to support its donations for poor.
How does this work ? sponsors and donors match the rice grain donations generated within Freerice through this game , triggering a financial payment to WFP as per the data records in the gaming website. This collection of payments that generated via Freerice go to the World Food Programme.
Since 2010, Freerice has raised more than 214 billion grains of rice for people in need. In cash equivalent, that is US $1.5 million.
Therefore, this is a good game to play which supports your knowledge and the stomach of poor in around the world.
Thus, please share the link with your pals

https://freerice.com/categories/english-vocabulary

Diminishing return of information/ thresholds _ Observational thought

Information act as a motive for a specific action. When the information exceeds the threshold requirement of the intended action, people would respond. Considering the recent Covid 19 outbreak, a certain level of information i.e severity of the damage, the number of deaths, pandemic nature, etc. have required to perform the precautionary actions. After refining this information further, the stimuli has been reduced making diminishing outcomes.

This would be one of the reasons for the disregarding later warnings by the general public. People have shown strong responses to the issue was new. Therefore, even though the news agencies had provided accurate information later, people might have ignored i.e. repeating the same information many times with the addition of a little new information. As a result, it has narrowed the information and accumulated only a little more than the threshold level. But this new refinement had taken less and less attention-demanding due to this diminishing returns. So, it requires more efforts to keep people adopting good health practices. Therefore, it can conclude that people have threshold levels related to information. After trespassing it, it needs additional emphasis to convey the message to more people since it has a diminishing return of stimulus after the every little refinement.