Canadian and Swiss Foundations Tackle Global Hearing Loss
The Swiss Hear the World Foundation and the Canadian World Wide Hearing Foundation are uniting to magnify their impact on a global scale.Â
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Hear the World Foundation Supports Dominican Hearing Healthcare Program
The Hear the World Foundation announced its support for Centro Cristiano's hearing healthcare program, helping to fund affordable audiological care for Dominicans in need.
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Hear the World Foundation Releases 2017-18 Activity Report
In the 2017-18 financial year, the Hear the World Foundation supported 25 aid projects around the world benefiting people in need with hearing loss, and particularly children, by providing CHF 3.51 million (about $3.51 million USD).
Giving the Gift of Hearing Means Giving the Gift of Hope
The nonprofit Hear the World Foundation is helping children 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.
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Patricia Roush Elected to Hear the World Foundation’s Advisory Board
Her areas of specialization and clinical research include the diagnosis of hearing loss in children, fitting of amplification in infants, and the audiological management of auditory neuropathy spectrum disorder.
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App-Based Hearing Screenings for 10,000 Children
In order to make hearing care accessible for people on low incomes, the Hear the World Foundation is working closely with the South Africa-based, e-health start-up HearX by mHealth Studio, which offers an app for hearing screenings. With the help of local partners, the goal is to perform hearing tests on 10,000 children by the start of 2019.
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Sonova Brand Ambassador Simon Ollert to Visit Malawi Hearing Clinic
Ollert visited the ABC Hearing Clinic in Lilongwe, Malawi’s capital, on January 10 and 11.
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Hear the World Foundation Project Funding Application Process Now Open
The Foundation has a special focus on projects that support children reach their developmental milestones and realize their full potential in life, regardless of hearing loss.
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2018 ‘Hear the World’ Calendar Available From Hear the World Foundation
One hundred percent of the proceeds benefit the Hear the World Foundation, a global nonprofit that aids disadvantaged people, particularly children, with hearing loss.
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#HearMalawi Building Capacity: Help from Malawians for Malawians
Founded in 2006 by Sonova, a provider of hearing solutions, the Hear the World Foundation supports disadvantaged people with hearing loss around the world and gets involved in hearing loss prevention.
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Global Foundation for Children with Hearing Loss Receives Richard Seewald Award
The annual prize by Sonova’s Hear the World Foundation honors outstanding projects benefiting people in need with hearing loss around the world.
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Hear Haiti: On the Road to Sustainability
Together, with the local aid organization Commissioned Believers Deaf Ministry (CBDM), the Swiss Hear the World Foundation gives hearing impaired children and their families assistance by providing audiological care and speech therapy.
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Access to Audiological Care for Children in Need
In Brazil, needy children with hearing loss and their families often have to undertake long and costly journeys to receive audiological care.
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Hear the World Foundation Seeking Applications for Judith Gravel Fellowship in Pediatric Audiology
The $15,000 award covers the period beginning June through May of the following year in order to help support the student’s educational needs in pursuing a career in pediatric audiology.
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Sonova Holding AG Announces Change in Management Board
Sarah Kreienbühl, Sonova Group Vice President, Corporate HRM and Communications, has decided to join the Management Board of Migros.
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Hear the World Foundation Holds Charity Gala at Dolder Grand in Zurich
The Hear the World Charity Gala on June 24, 2017 raised over CHF 375,000 (approximately USD $389,731) in donations.
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Chinese Dancer Tianjiao Zhang to Appear at Sonova Events
Sonova, Stäfa, Switzerland—a manufacturer of global hearing care solutions—is inviting Chinese dancer Tianjiao Zhang to make appearances at Sonova’s annual general shareholders’ meeting in Zurich on June 13 and another at a charity event near Munich on June 16, Sonova announced.
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Hear the World Foundation Financials Show Increase in Donations From Previous Year
In the 2016/17 fiscal year, the Hear the World Foundation—an organization founded by Sonova that supports disadvantaged individuals with hearing loss—provided CHF 2.58 million (approximately USD $2.63 million) to support 23 aid projects around the world, helping people in need with hearing loss, the foundation announced.
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