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Third Eye Worldwide (TEWW) is a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to empowering blind and visually impaired people worldwide through assistive technology, education, community, and advocacy.We were founded in 2025 by Said Mohaddes Sadeqi, an engineer and educator who lives with visual impairment. The work is built from inside the experience, not from the outside looking in.Today we are a small team — three full-time staff and six active volunteers — building hardware, software, and a global community for users that mainstream technology has never been designed for.

We build hardware, software, and a long-term ecosystem for blind and low-vision people. Free at point of use, open-source where it can be, designed for the conditions our users actually live in.Live todayThird Eye Kit — a three-part wearable navigation system (glasses, shoes, gloves) with ultrasonic sensors, GPS, fall detection, and emergency alerts. Works on 2G. Roughly $50 to build. Award-winner at TEKNOFEST Black Sea 2022.TE — AI Voice Navigator — say "Hey TE" anywhere on this site to navigate, read, or control the audio tour by voice.In active developmentThird Eye AI — a voice-first AI built into the Third Eye mobile app, trained specifically for blind users. First release in 2026.Third Eye World — a voice-first social platform where every post is a voice memo and every action is a voice command. Public beta in 2026.PlannedA free voice-first global online university, a career service, a news channel, and a story submission portal. Each is part of one ecosystem: built around the full life of a blind or visually impaired person, not a single product moment.

To ensure that no blind or visually impaired person, anywhere in the world, has to navigate a system that was never built for them.Disability is not a medical condition — it is a failure of imagination. Roughly 70% of blind people are unemployed worldwide, not because they cannot work, but because every job, tool, and interface has been designed for people with sight and then blamed blind users for failing to fit.We reject the charity frame. Blind users are not other; they are the same — with the same range of talents, ambitions, intelligence, and capacity for contribution as anyone else. The work is to return what has always been theirs: the gift of inclusion, the gift of independence, the gift of confidence, the gift of dignity.Drawing from the Sufi tradition that gives the organization its name, Third Eye Worldwide is built on a single line from Rumi: we are all blind until we see each other's pain.

Five non-negotiables. Every hire, product decision, and partnership gets measured against them:Dignity first. Accessibility isn't a feature we bolt on — it's the foundation we start from.Nothing about us, without us. No product, policy, or program is designed without the people it serves in the room.Open by default. MIT-licensed code, crowd-sourced translations, public research.Built for where people live. If it only works in a San Francisco lab, it doesn't work.Radical transparency. Every dollar is traceable, every impact number auditable, every mistake we make is published.

Because the work is unambiguous, measurable, and personal. Every feature you ship, every language you translate, every voice command you tune lands in the hands of a real person who gains independence they didn't have before.You'll have ownership. Tiny team, real mandates. We're three full-time staff and six volunteers; new contributors ship to production in their first week.Founder-led accessibility. Our founder is visually impaired — every product decision is weighed against lived experience before it ships.Your work stays free. Everything you build is MIT-licensed forever. No acquisitions, no paywalls, no "pro tier" someday.Voice-first, by design. We're building tools where blind users are the default users, not an accommodation.