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ReSound in collaboration with the association World Medical Aid has created its first humanitarian project which consists in helping hearing-impaired children and adults to hear better, thus escaping the isolation they are condemned to, and integrating into their community.

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Hearing loss: how many people suffer from it?

We believe that, with our global presence, we have the responsibility proactively to meet the ethical and social challenges we face, and are aware that over 5% of world population (WHO DATA) suffers from hearing impairment and hearing loss. Ear-related problems mainly affect elderly people. Data show that one out of three people over 65 lives with hearing loss. However, this sensory impairment does not spare the youngest: there are some 32 million children under 15 years of age with hearing loss or impaired hearing.

How our project is born

This already dramatic scenario is especially alarming in the developing and underdeveloped countries. Like many other African countries, Kenya, though it is the strongest economy in East Africa, is affected by a high corruption rate, deep inequality in the domestic distribution of wealth, poor access to healthcare systems, and high AIDS incidence. Here, too, as in the rest of the African continent, the problem of hearing loss becomes worrying because children and adults are condemned to total isolation from the community.

More than ever, it is essential to concentrate energies to fight deafness in children and adults, thus allowing them to escape isolation, thanks to the fitting of hearing aids. That is why ReSound together with the association World Medical Aid has decided to create ReSound For Africa, a humanitarian project to carry out training and provide diagnostic equipment and hearing aids for the Chaaria Mission Hospital in Kenya.

United to help you feel better

ReSound and World Medical Aid share the same mission: helping hearing-impaired children and adults to hear better, thus escaping the isolation they are condemned to, and integrating into their community.

At ReSound For Africa, together with World Medical Aid, we believe that it may take some time to see changes, but when several people donate their time and energy to well-structured projects with long-term goals, then every individual’s help becomes important.