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Together for better hearing

Founded in 2006 by Sonova Group, the Hear the World Foundation supports projects around the world enabling children with hearing loss to develop appropriate to their age. The foundation focuses on projects in low- to middle-income countries which give children with hearing loss access to audiological care. To this end, the non-profit Swiss foundation provides funding, hearing technology as well as on-site expertise to train local professionals. The expertise is provided by Sonova Group employees who work on a voluntary basis for the foundation.

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Activity Report

CHF 3.95 mio for people in need with hearing loss

In the 2019/20 financial year, the Hear the World Foundation provided 3.95 million Swiss francs in support for people with hearing loss. With this funding, the foundation aided 23 projects in 20 countries plus 1 worldwide by supplying them with hearing technology, funding and expertise.

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.

#HearDR

A success story

It all began in 2010 with a request to the Hear the World Foundation to provide funding for a sound level meter – an instrument for professional audiological diagnosis. Today the Centro Cristiano de Servicios Médicos offers an audiological service that is unique on the Caribbean island.

Hearing test

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.

#hearmexico

Training local specialists

The goal of our project partner CORAL is to enable children with hearing loss in the Oaxaca region to develop their full potential and be integrated into society. This is only possible if they receive hearing aids and professional hearing care.

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May
2020

Activity report 2019/20: CHF 3.95 mio for people in need with hearing loss

The Hear the World Foundation supported a total of 24 projects around the world with funding, hearing aid and cochlear implant technology and expertise worth CHF 3.95 million – thus giving people in need with hearing loss, and particularly children, access to hearing care.

May
2019

Activity report 2018/19: CHF 2.57 million for people in need with hearing loss

In 2018, the Hear the World Foundation supported 23 aid projects benefiting people in need with hearing loss, and particularly children, by providing CHF 2.57 million.

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.

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Your donation changes lives

Join us and support our projects for children with hearing loss. Thanks to your generosity, we can expand audiological care in Asia, Africa and Latin America, and give children a self-determined future.

Conscious hearing

Sounds Good Blog

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

Knowledge

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

All personal information collected will be used exclusively for the purpose of this donation and will only be shared with companies duly accredited. Please check our privacy policy for more information.

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.