Project partner
Funding period
since 2020
Support
Technology, Funding, Expertise
About Fundación Su Niño No Puede Esperar (FUSNINPE)
Fundación Su Niño No Puede Esperar (FUSNINPE) is a non-profit organization founded in 2007 that aims to provide hearing care to all children in El Salvador. It organizes training opportunities for professionals and local campaigns to inform about hearing loss, and it actively screens children in rural communities.
HTWF has been supporting FUSNINPE since 2020, operating mainly in the capital San Salvador. FUSNINPE aims to become a referral pediatric audiological care center for physicians from government institutions in El Salvador which includes different services and activities for children with hearing loss from low-income families.
The organization is the only provider of audiological services to low-income communities in the country. The team collaborates with neonatology staff at hospitals to increase impact by conducting newborn hearing screenings. In the absence of a public prevention program, its also campaigns to improve accessibility to educational material for caregivers.
Project objectives
- Increase access to services for underprivileged children in screening, diagnosis, hearing aid fitting and follow-up care
- Increase educational and emotional support to families of children with hearing loss
- Increase the level of knowledge related to pediatric hearing loss in professionals (e.g., physicians, teachers) with the goal that they promote correct referrals
- Increase awareness in the community related to pediatric hearing loss through prevention campaigns