At the time we were the only registered talking newspaper in Africa. Members of the Club and some friends read articles of interest out of newspapers and magazines onto an audio cassette tape. Credit is given to where the article was taken from, be it a local or international publications. These tapes are copied and sent out to various people who are visually impaired. There is no cost to the listener, all that is required is that they have a cassette player to play the tape on.
Postage is free.
Unfortunately a lot of the listeners are passing on to greener, or higher, pastures, and the number of members is dropping. We are currently working on a campaign to raise public awareness of this project, but it not easy to get corporate sponsorship, and advertising in the media is costly. Sometime, in the near future we hope to introduce children's tapes, in Shona, with local folk lore, and articles for the children who are visually impaired, or unable to read for themselves. If these prove successful, we may branch into the other local languages.