How Microsoft is helping blind children learn to code and gamifying disease treatment

There are 253 million people living with a visual impairment and 70, 000 people with cystic fibrosis. Many are children, and Microsoft wants to help them.

Children are born with a natural curiosity and hunger to explore, learn about and experience the world around them. To them, the world is full of mystery and wonder to which they wish to apply their senses, energy and vitality to understand. Their perception of the future is a vast and infinite realm of possibilities unaffected by the pressures of mortality that will later impose humbling boundaries limiting their now limitless horizons.

Sadly, children living with visual impairments face a reality where their exploration of the world is without the benefit of sight. And children with Cystic Fibrosis, a chronic genetic disease which imposes an average life expectancy of 41, face their mortality daily as they endure day-to-day treatments to prolong their lives.

Microsoft's Project Fizzyo helps children with Cystic Fibrosis engage in their daily treatments, and its Project Torino teaches coding to children who can't see.

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