KBTA in East Africa and Malawi

Tanzania

• Served approximately 2000 learners with visual impairments distributed across 30 special and integrated programs
• Has a total of 70 trained school-based technicians
• Provided more than 250 Braille machines. The Government inspired by the KBTA model provided 932 Braille machines and trained 15 additional technicians
• Repaired more than 6000 mechanical Braille machines since inception
• Distributed more than 20 tones of quality and affordable Braille paper
• Has the challenge of being the largest project in geographical coverage

Kenya Project

• Served approximately 1500 learners with visual impairments in 20 special schools and integrated programs
• Trained more than 60 school-based Brailler Repair Technicians
• Provided more than 450 new Braille machines
• Repaired more than 10,000 Braille machines since inception
• Provided more than 30 tones of quality and affordable Braille paper
• Pioneered that Orbit Reader 20 project

Uganda Project

• Served more than 1000 learners with  visual impairments spread in 40 schools
• Supplied more than 250 new Braille machines
• Has 50 trained Braille Repair Technicians
• Repaired more than 8,000 Braille machines
• Provided 30 tones of quality and affordable Braille paper

Rwanda Project

• Supplied 3 tons of quality and affordable Braille paper directly to the Education Centre for the Blind led by the Franciscan Sisters in Kibeho
• Latest of the KBTA partnership with Rwandese Union of the Blind
• Piloting the Orbit Reader Project and Braille Literacy projects in 3 special schools
• Targeting 300 learners with visual impairments spread across a small geographical area.

Malawi Project

• Served more than 650 learners with visual impairments focussed in 15 resource centres across a fairly small geographical area.
• Has 15 Trained Brailler machine Repair Technicians
• Repaired 1,500 Braille machines
• Provided 5 tonnes of Braille paper
• Supplied 10 new mechanical Braille machines
• Implemented the Orbit Reader 20 project with 153 learners with visual impairments across 12 schools.