Be My Eyes Newsletter - April 2020.

In this month’s edition: New Specialized Help partners & One World: Together At Home.

Hi, welcome to the April Newsletter!

TITLE: News & Updates.

IMAGE ALT-text: The logos of RNIB, ACB, Galloway's and Lighthouse San Francisco on a blue background.
TITLE: Welcoming Four New Blind Organizations to Specialized Help (link).
TEXT: We’re happy to announce that our users will now be able to connect with ACB, RNIB and more through Be My Eyes.

IMAGE ALT-text: Global Citizen’s One World Together At Home and Be My Eyes’ logos in white on a black background.
TITLE: One World: Together At Home with Be My Eyes (link).
TEXT: Be My Eyes partnered with Global Citizen to provide audio description for the massive WHO benefit event.

TITLE: The Be My Eyes Podcast.

IMAGE ALT-text: Photo of Hoby Wedler along with the Be My Eyes Podcast logo.
TITLE: 23 April 2020 - Exploring the Senses with a Blind Chemist - Featuring Hoby Wedler, Chemist (link).

IMAGE ALT-text: Photo of Haben Girma along with the Be My Eyes Podcast logo.
TITLE: 7 April 2020 - Deaf-blind in the White House - Featuring Haben Girma, Civil Rights Advocate (link).

TITLE: 13 Letters.

IMAGE ALT-text: Photo of KR Liu along with the 13 Letters logo.
TITLE: 24 April 2020 - Branding Accessibility - Featuring KR Liu, Head of Brand Accessibility Google (link).

IMAGE ALT-text: Photo of Larry Goldberg along with the 13 Letters logo.
TITLE: 16 April 2020 - Will VR be Accessible? - Featuring Larry Goldberg, Head of Accessibility Verizon Media (link).

TITLE: Featured Story of the Month.

IMAGE ALT-text: Watch Belinda’s Story on YouTube. (link)
TITLE: Belinda’s Story: A Volunteer to the Core.
TEXT: Even though Belinda has only answered one Be My Eyes call, she is far from an inexperienced volunteer. Her volunteer resume counts positions as peer counselor, teacher and interviewer just to name a few.

Read or listen to Belinda’s Story (link).

TITLE: What people are saying.

“People sometimes criticise scientific advancements, and they talk about everything that’s bad about the internet or everything that is bad about technology, but I think this is just proof that technology can be used in the best way possible.” - Nawaal, Volunteer from Pakistan.

“I installed Be My Eyes and tried it out, did a couple of calls, and I really realised how enormous of a potential this app has.” - Michal, Blind user from USA.

End Note:
We know that this month has been very different and challenging for a lot of you, but we hope that you can find you in the communities that will always be there for you. And we can assure you that the Be My Eyes definitely will.

Stay safe! - The Be My Eyes Team.

Total sign-ups to this day: 213,681 Blind, 3,722,374 Volunteers.