In Colombia, 3- 5% of screened children under the age of 5 are found to have hearing deficiencies. Appropriate treatment and follow-up can pose significant challenges since much of this population migrates often due to political and economic factors. In this project, your donation will directly support Oyeme's work detecting and addressing young children's hearing loss through additional screenings , and enhanced education of care-givers on related behavioral signs and overall hearing care.
Correct diagnosis and treatment at the earliest age possible, are critical to assure a child's communicational and educational development. Therefore, Fundacion Oyeme continual challenge is: - To find hearing deficiencies in children as early as possible, well before formal schooling starts. - To prevent children from acquiring irreversible deafness. - To promote social acceptance and equal opportunity for hearing-impaired children.
This project will allow us to increase our reach to under-served communities in need, establish trusting relationships and set up programs that: - Screen day-care and/or nursery school children for hearing deficiencies. - Train parents and caregivers with tools to notice and respond to hearing deficiencies in their children; provide ready support to address accordingly . -Train educators on strategies to detect hearing impairments in any student in their care.
The long-term impact of the initiative will manifest itself in children who are able to access formal education with hearing children. In this way, they will have the chance to finish their primary school, their baccalaureate, can complete their higher education, and have access to fair employment opportunities. This process of development and inclusion will be the fruit of the awareness of all the actors who have surrounded the child throughout his/her life.
This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).
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