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Morabaraba is a traditional two playerstrategy board game played in Botswana. It was considered as asport for women back in the days.This game helps in characterbuilding and is a means of mental growth. It also broadens thethinking capacity and enhances problem solving skills of anindividual. Morabaraba game is intended to help in the preservationof Botswana Culture.The game is made of four rows board consisting of six holes perrow and each player is allocated two adjacent rows. At thebeginning of the game each hole is inflated with three stones.

A 2 player strategy game that can help in enhancing problem solvingskills.

Be Wild. Be Wise

Currently in Botswana there are more than 20 000 Deafpeople.However, the general population does not understand signlanguage,therefore, creating a communication barrier between theDeaf andthe Hearing. SignCoach mobile app aims to breakcommunicationbarrier by teaching Botswana sign language. Users areable to learnsign language through the use of pictures, videos anda quiz.SignCoach comprises three levels of Botswana Sign Language.Inlevel 1, users learn topics of basic sign language and Level3teaches intermediary sign language topics. The quiz is providedinLevel 3 for users to test their knowledge and learnsentenceconstruction. SignCoach has features where the user wouldbe ableto translate speech to text and text to speech. The userscan learnfrom SignCoach at the palm of their hands wherever theyare, itdoes not rely on the availability of the internet. WithSignCoach,communication between the Deaf and the Hearing would benaturalthus making it easy for the Deaf to be part of thecommunicationcircle, access good quality education, and haveemploymentopportunities in large numbers. With unemployment being achallengein Botswana, ease of communication between the Deaf andthe Hearingwill encourage the Deaf to unleash their untapped skillsandtalents and help them to run their own business andemployingothers without any fear of communication being achallenge.