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Founded in 2006 by Sonova, the leading provider of hearing solutions, the Hear the World Foundation supports people, and particularly children in need with hearing loss around the world and gets involved in hearing loss prevention. Since its establishment, the non-profit Swiss foundation has supported over 90 projects in 39 countries with funding, hearing aid technology and expertise.

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CI Vietnam

Breaking the silence – with a cochlear implant

In Vietnam, ten children get the gift of hearing thanks to cochlear implants. While hearing aids are usually sufficient for spoken language development in children with mild to moderate hearing loss, children with profound hearing loss need cochlear implant technology to be able to hear the sounds of speech required to develop spoken language.

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Supporting a school for children with hearing loss

Vietnam is one of the world’s most dynamic emerging nations. Its healthcare system is also constantly improving, but the care varies greatly between the poor and the rich, as well as between urban and rural areas. In the remote Mekong Delta, the Hear the World Foundation is supporting a school for children with hearing loss, by donating hearing aids and technical equipment.

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When hearing aids no longer help

Full of hope, Ha and Hang are waiting for a special moment: on February 27th, 2019, their son Hung, who is almost three years old, will once again hear his parents’ voices clearly. That is the moment when the boy’s cochlear implant, which he received through the #HearVietnam program on January 21st in Hanoi, will be activated.

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3 minute test

Take a few minutes and test your hearing. The Hear the World hearing health check will give you an idea of how well you are hearing.

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Peru and the hearing test factory

60 wax occlusions, 21 infections, two Piñata foam pieces and a live insect (a cochineal)! - some otoscopy findings during your typical week of hearing screening in Lima. In September 2018, I was fortunate to be allowed to be part of a small team of Sonova volunteers, who travelled to Lima.

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April
2019

Thanks to a CI, Tung Lam has the chance to listen and talk

The Hear the World Foundation, in partnership with the Global Foundation for Children with Hearing Loss, is providing 10 children with significant hearing loss in Vietnam with cochlear implants (CIs), 15 years of product support, and the locally-based support services that they need to fully develop listening and speaking skills.

November
2018

Peru: Over 31,000 children tested for hearing loss

Permanent hearing loss is one of the most common disabilities and two out of 1,000 newborns are born with hearing loss. Although Peru adopted the universal neonatal screening policy, with only 10 audiologists for 32 million habitants, newborns and infants remain untested for hearing loss. For this reason, the Hear the World Foundation and World Wide Hearing Foundation International jointly launched a program in 2016 to test underserved children in Peru for hearing loss.

September
2018

Cochlear Implant donation helps children in Vietnam to hear

The Global Foundation For Children With Hearing Loss and the Hear the World Foundation have joined forces to enable Vietnamese children in need with significant hearing loss to hear and speak. Hear the World is donating cochlear implants, the cost of the operations, auditory-verbal therapy, audiological follow-up care, and a guarantee on the devices for up to 15 years.

August
2018

World Wide Hearing receives Richard Seewald Award 2018/19

The recipient of Hear the World's 2018/19 Richard Seewald Award is World Wide Hearing. World Wide Hearing works towards the prevention of hearing loss and early identification of school children with hearing loss.

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Give the gift of hearing

The Hear the World Foundation supports people and particularly children in need with hearing loss around the world and gets involved in prevention. The focus is on projects for children to enable them to develop at the appropriate rate for their age. You can help with a donation.

Conscious hearing

Sounds Good Blog

Read our blog posts about the importance of good hearing, personal stories, interviews, gadgets, studies and much more.

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Hearing and hearing loss

The importance of good hearing and the consequences of hearing loss are often underestimated. We inform about the subject.

Give the gift of hearing

Our vision is a world in which everybody has the chance of good hearing. To turn this vision into reality, we support projects all over the world benefiting people and particularly children in need with hearing loss and open up a prospect of a better future for them.

Give the gift of hearing

With your donation you help people in need to better hear. Thanks to your contribution we can provide even more powerful hearing solutions and free-of-charge follow-up care to people and particularly children in need with hearing loss all over the world.

100 % of your donation effectively used

We guarantee to direct every donation efficiently, in order to make a sustained contribution towards better hearing in conjunction with our professional partners all over the world. And as Sonova bears all of the administrative costs of the foundation, 100 percent of your support goes directly to our projects.

How to donate

You can make an online donation via Paypal or donate via bank transfer:

UBS AG, Zurich
Account:
Hear the World Foundation
Account number:
230-477384.01U
IBAN:
CH12 0023 0230 4773 8401 U
SWIFT:
UBSWCHZH80A

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The Hear the World Foundation is an officially recognized swiss foundation and all donations are tax deductible following the rules and regulations of your country of residency.