The project was launched in April 2016 and started
in Botswana where SAFOD is headquartered. The first year involved
designing and testing the technology system with a small group of
participants to ensure it is useful and understandable by both persons
with disabilities and organizations involved in supplying AT.
In the second and third year of the project, the lessons learned from
Botswana were used to expand the use of the system throughout Botswana
and into nine countries in Southern Africa (Angola, Zambia, Mozambique,
Malawi, Zimbabwe, Lesotho, Swaziland, South Africa, and Namibia).
Within 3 years, the AT-Info-Map system plans to have over 1500 active
users across southern Africa who are providing information on AT
availability, and using this informing to increase AT access.