World Wide Hearing receives funding

After winning the McGill Dobson Cup, World Wide Hearing received a $113,000 grant from Grand Challenges Canada to pilot its hearing aid delivery model, Hearing Express. In 2013-2014, the pilot project was run in Kraimeh, a rural community in Western Jordan, in collaboration with a new outreach centre for children with disabilities. Over the course of the project, Hearing Express female technicians visited Jordanian households and held hearing camps to provide affordable hearing aids to people who need them, validating the model. 

In other news, World Wide Hearing Foundation International has recently been chosen as one of two anchor grantees for a new Google Impact Challenge focused on disabilities. Thanks to a $500,000 USD grant from Google.org, World Wide Hearing will develop, prototype, and test an extremely low-cost mobile toolkit for diagnosing hearing loss using widely available and affordable smartphone technology. This toolkit will help identify those living with hearing loss in poor and remote communities worldwide, ensuring that they can receive the care they need.

More information is available on the Google Canada blog: googlecanada.blogspot.ca/, and on the Google.org blog: googleblog.blogspot.ca/2015/05/google-impact-challenge-disabilities.html. 

June 19, 2015