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New hope for Phuong
The three-and-a-half-year-old Phuong was born in Vietnam with severe hearing loss. A cochlear implant seemed unattainable to her parents, but the joint program of the Global Foundation For Children With Hearing Loss and the Hear the World Foundation gave them new hope.
Fashion for a good cause
Sonova employee and Slow Fashion designer Morena Rüfenacht designed a cool t-shirt to support the Hear the World Foundation.
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).
We run for Hear the World
On Sunday, April 28, 2019, 64 Sonova employees from Switzerland and the UK ran for Hear the World and raised awareness and funds for the foundation.
Guatemala: our youngest volunteer
In 2018, Hear the World received an e-mail from Tighe Baier, saying that her 12-year-old son Isaiah had written a book about his experiences with hearing loss.
Peru: over 31,000 children tested for hearing loss
Although Peru adopted the universal neonatal screening policy, 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.
CI-Donation helps children in Vietnam to hear
The Global Foundation For Children With Hearing Loss, a United States-based nonprofit organization, and the Swiss Hear the World Foundation have joined forces to enable ten Vietnamese children in need with significant hearing loss to hear and speak.
Gregor Meyle: “I was totally impressed…”
German singer-songwriter Gregor Meyle has been a Hear the World ambassador since July 2018. During his visit to a project in South Africa in July, he met children with hearing loss at the Carel du Toit Centre and sang with them as part of a musical speech therapy session.
