Products such as glasses, hearing aids or wheelchairs—known as assistive technology (AT)—and the services that provide them are essential for healthy, productive, independent and dignified lives.

So much so, that they are a right enshrined in the United Nations’ Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.

However when we come to ground reality, 90-130 million people live with some form of disability in India​ and over 30 million have locomotive disabilities.According to UN, in nations like India only 1 in 10 person with disability has access to an assistive device.