Over the years, attempts have been made to supply visual models which might make the job of drawing visuals easier for project workers with limited training. Another problem often encountered is the difficulty in finding experienced personnel to prepare the materials in a camera read form quickly and easily. With the increasing numbers of computers now being used in the field there has grown a demand for simpler and more direct system. Traditional graphics and desk top producing programs available to most projects tend to become a bit to complicated for the average user to make much use of the cabablities hence one more organizations are looking at and begining to use the Macintosh system. The Ministry of Agriculture in Swaziland is now equipped with a Mac system and there is a Macintosh User Club in Niger.
Many administrators have a system at home.
You can make single or limited, specific materials to be uses by the workers or teachers. Or the project can produce the art work for materials to be used nationally. These computer generated images can also be easily changed or adapted by people with little artistic talent or experience. Faced with many of the problems stated earlier, the Swaziland Project for Promotion of Improved Young Child Feeding succeeded in solving them and producing a variety of project support material by using a Macintosh computer and modest graphic software. The Project was started in 1986 with the key implementing agencies being the Ministries of Health and Agriculture.