According to the World Health Organization, each year the number of the worlds blind people increases by 1 million.

Every 5 seconds in the world one adult loses his sight, every minute – a child do. In Ukraine, according to official statistics, there are from 70 to 100 thousand people with serious visual impairments. They face daily problems of employment, education and providing leisure time.

Ukrainian realities are not adapted for the visually impaired, our infrastructure, transport agencies, any store or school does not allow using them freely. In fact, blind people are often just locked in a confined space; they totally depend on others and are unable to use the simple "benefits of civilization". Scientists say that with the help of sight, a person gets 80% of information about the world and understands the life. Imagine how can a child get into the world, if he or she can not see anything? Yes, special up-to-date tools are required for that, but we still have children, who are taught by the books, that where written ages ago.

On the other hand, the Israeli inventors do everything they can to help people with similar problems. They developed a special device that attaches to the glasses. It detects an object and transmits information about it to a man by voice message. This assistant is called OrCam. To make it work, you have to press the button or make some gesture and wonder glasses will make instant photograph and analyze it into the audio format. After that it will tell what person sees by himself. So blind people can actually read, recognize the color of the traffic lights without assistance, and determine the number of public transport and much more.

By the way, Israel's Ministry of Education plans to introduce OrCam in all schools because of the strong need to help children with visual impairments. The cost of one unit is considerable - about $ 2,500, but surely it worth’s the money. Machine "speaks" in Hebrew, English, German, Spanish and French.

I hope that Ukraine will soon take the same way and do everything to make the life of visually impaired people easier, not more complicated. I advise my readers to pay attention to those who are truly in need. In reality, even all traffic lights are not equipped with a metronome to help the blind to cross the road. So once again: help them to move, or in stores, or in transport, because it is our duty.