This project is a prime example of successful cooperation between a local non-profit organization, a university, and an international foundation. Specialists from Nova Southeastern University in the USA, the Nicaragua-based NPO Los Pipitos, and the Hear the World Foundation are working together with the aim of improving the hearing of 125 children by 2019.
Place & Year
Project Partners
Nova Southeastern University, Department of Audiology (Florida)Support
Main Focus
Long-term hearing healthcare
The local non-profit organization Los Pipitos looks after people with disabilities and organizes regular hearing screenings. Up to now, however, they have never had the means to provide and fit hearing aids for children affected by hearing loss or to guarantee follow-up care. So this is where the Hear the World Foundation comes in, with a donation over five years of hearing aids, batteries and audiological equipment.
Aftercare by locals
The children’s audiological treatment is provided by students and professors from the Department of Audiology at Nova Southeastern University in Florida, who travel to Nicaragua once a year. Local Los Pipitos staff then take over again to provide the follow-up care.
Involving the families is essential
What makes this project particularly sustainable is that Los Pipitos’ employees are given training and help to ensure that they can provide follow-up care and make any necessary repairs to hearing aids on site. Thanks to state-of-the-art tele-audiology solutions, they can rely on continuous support from the team at Nova Southeastern University. The parents of the affected children are involved too: they are taught how to handle and apply the hearing aids correctly, when to take them out, and why hearing is so important for speech development.
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.
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