UVSafe, by Black Albinism
Know before you step outside.
Real-time UV, sun safety you can act on, and a route to care. Built for people with albinism, across Africa.
Sun protection should be a right, not a privilege. Everything here is free to use and works on a cheap phone.
Reading the sky…
Fetching the current UV index for this location.
Live reading unavailable.
Assume high. Sunscreen, a wide brim, long sleeves and UV400 lenses are the right answer on any day you cannot check.
Next hours
UV data from Open-Meteo. Guidance is written for skin without melanin, so protection scales with the reading, it never switches off.
Sun safety
Four things, every day, whatever the number says.
Most sun advice tells you to relax below index 3. That advice is written for people who make melanin. It does not apply to you.
SPF 50+
Broad spectrum, on every bit of exposed skin, reapplied roughly every two hours outdoors and more often if you are sweating.
Where to get itCover up
A wide brim, not a cap. Long sleeves in light fabric. A cap leaves your ears, neck and cheeks exposed, which is exactly where damage shows first.
Browse SunWise+Protect your eyes
UV400 wraparound lenses. They cut the glare that arrives from the sides, which is where most of the pain comes from.
Eye careUse shade and timing
Move what you can to early morning or late afternoon. Cloud cover cuts the heat far more than it cuts the UV, so a cool day is not a safe day.
No internet needed
Short code
Networks
The whole service, on any phone.
A smartphone is not a fair requirement for something this important. A short code puts the same three things in reach of a feature phone with no data.
A short code has to be licensed and paid for on each network, so this stays marked as planned until one is secured.
Community
Nobody should be working this out alone.
Which sunscreen actually holds up in the heat. How to get a teacher to move a desk away from a window. What to say to a nurse who has never treated albinism before. That knowledge sits with people who have already done it.
Join the communityFund it
One tube of sunscreen is one month of protection.
Funding UVSafe is unusually direct. The money buys cream, hats, lenses and appointments, and you can choose which.
Where UVSafe is right now
Built in phases, described honestly.
We start with the cheapest, most directly life-saving pieces and add the rest as capacity allows. This table is the truth about what exists today.
Current index and the rest of today, for any town in the list or your own location.
LiveSun, skin and eye care guidance in plain language.
Phase 1Linking people to government hospitals running the National Albinism Sunscreen Support Programme.
Phase 1Dermatologists, ophthalmologists and screening pathways.
Phase 1Tell us what you need and where you are, and we come back with a named clinician and a time.
Phase 1Peer support where people already are, rather than a forum nobody has time to moderate.
Phase 1For feature phones and areas with no data.
PlannedThe full service as a native application.
Planned