4000 Canadians with sight loss know that technology is important to them but close to half of those people, 46% to be exact, simply can't afford the necessary devices.

With these numbers, the Canadian National Institute for the Blind (CNIB) launched their brand new campaign, Phone it Forward, and they're asking residents to help them provide the tech that blind people need.

"It's really a community-driven campaign where individuals, corporations, community groups, can really band together to donate their used cellphone," explained Christall Beaudry, the CNIB Executive Director. "So what they do is they donate their used cell phones, we have it wiped clean and we load it with accessibility apps and then we deploy that phone out to someone in the blind and partially sighted community who needs and wants it."

Apps like "TapTapSee," "Seeing AI," and many other apps to help those visually impaired, such as an app that will connect you with someone through a video call and they can help them do things like pick out the proper colour of clothing or adjust a thermostat.

All the CNIB requires for the donation is the phone, battery and signed donor agreement form included in the pre-paid donation envelope you can pick up downtown from Scotiabank. It's free to send it to CNIB, all you have to do is take it to the mailbox.

"We're hoping that we have huge support from the community, we have 14,800 people in Saskatchewan who are blind and partially sighted," Beaudry added. "The driver behind the program is the more phones we get donated from the community, the more phones we can distribute out to those who need it in our community."

You can find more info on the Phone it Forward website.