Nature is beautiful, but if you can not see the colors? And if you can not even see?
Recognize a color is not just an aesthetic issue. The visually impaired people, specially the blind ones, cannot recognize colors and money bills. This is important to improve their life quality because it turns them more independent and elevates their self-esteem. In addition, this handicap avoids them to work on several areas. Most of these people have low income and therefore, need a low cost solution to this problem.
There are 314 million people visually impaired in the world, 45 million of them are blind (WHO, 2009). Also, 87% of them live in developing countries (25 million only in Brazil).
About 29% of the Brazilian visual impaired people (7.25 million) lives with less than $200 per month (the minimum salary in the country). Only São Paulo state holds 2.2 million of them. In addition, the Brazilian’s life expectancy is 68 years, with 80% of this time without any handicap. This mean that the average Brazilian will live 14 year with some kind of handicap (Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics, 2009).
Read about our solution.
AUIRE is a Social Business that develops low cost assistive devices to visually impaired people. 
