Showing posts with label Philanthropy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Philanthropy. Show all posts

Saturday, February 16, 2008

Jamaican School for the Deaf Celebrates 50 Years

Jamaica
Jamaica Gleaner
February 2008

Imagine Jamaica 50 years ago.
Imagine being deaf in Jamaica in the 1950's.
Beautiful story of how two determined Canadian missionaries launched a school for the deaf in 1957 Jamaica.

Monday, January 21, 2008

British Trust to the Rescue of Hard of Hearing Kids in South Africa

TRUST PROVIDING CRUCIAL HELP FOR DEAF CHILDREN

Bath, UK
The Bath Chronicle
January 2008

A British trust has been helping restore hearing to children in South Africa, donating as many as 2,000 instruments to South African children. The UK-based Signal Trust collects donations of hearing aids and repairs them prior to shipping them south, where audiologists identify needy children and fit them with the instruments. Most children fitted do not have the benefit of verbal communication.