The Hear the Word Foundation supports collaborative efforts that will achieve significant and enduring improvements in hearing health for children in low- to middle-income countries.
We support programs and initiatives that:
- Work towards improving hearing healthcare for children in underserved communities.
- Have a holistic program framework and a strong emphasis on building local capacity
- Use evidence-based ways to achieve specified outcomes in hearing health and show willingness and capacities to participate in monitoring and evaluation
- Follow an inclusive approach
We partner with:
- Locally-rooted organizations in low- to middle-income countries
- Professional, legally registered non-profit organizations including NGOs, community groups, hospitals and actors within the private sector, preferably working with local governments and in networks with other organizations
- Financially stable and transparent partners, working towards a self-reliant hearing health care model
How we support our program partners:
- All work is led by program partners
- We provide long-term funding and technological support in the form of hearing technology and diagnostic equipment
- We augment funding with professional expertise and strategic consultancy support
We do not support:
- Basic funding of organizations or foundations
- Campaigns, projects or organizations with significant political exposure
- Fly-in fly-out projects without local anchoring
- Individual persons with hearing loss
- Projects in countries with severe safety or security risks