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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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Thanks to a cochlear implant (CI), Isai from Panama can hear again. This three-year-old boy has lived with profound hearing loss since the age of one.

The Hear the World Foundation has been financially supporting All Ears Cambodia (AEC) since 2010, by donating hearing aids, batteries and by providing professional expertise on site.

Hear the World Foundation is helping Syrian children in Lebanon to hear again, with its HearLebanon project. This gives the children the opportunity to learn to talk, so they have an equal chance of being able to live independent lives later on.

Finally able to hear: this dream came true for three disadvantaged children in Panama when their cochlear implants (CI) were successfully activated. They are the first to be provided with hearing implants in the ten-year history of the Hear the World Foundation.