Restore Hearing to 100 Children in Panama

Providing the opportunity to hear to children with hearing problems is a task that not only involves their direct attention, but it also requires teaching those involved in their care and growth about how to respond to their needs and challenges as they start growing up.

In this sense, one of the projects we have been developing in the second half of 2023, focuses on training teachers and parents, to give them the tools that will help them suspect when they are facing children with possible hearing loss and help them raise a flag to have them tested minimizing the effects of a delayed detection. We have been doing this job not only in Panama, but also inspiring other foundations in El Salvador with which today we have alliances to make a greater impact on children´s lives.

Through our project "Aprendo Escuchando” carried out with a public local institution MIDES (Ministry of Social Development), this year we have attended +650 children in different public schools, performing early detection hearing tests

We thank you for believing and supporting this project that continues transforming lives through the possibility of better hearing.

The last 8th May, Oír es Vivir foundation was celebrating 15 years of continous work, raising awareness about hearing health and helping kids with hearing handicaps, to improve their way to live inside a society of hearing people.

We have been looking to influence on schools and rural communities of Panama, leading specialists to achieve the early detection of hearing problems and due care after these, which also includes guidance and support to parents who often do not know how to deal with these problems.

So far this year we have seen a total of 148 children, and of these, 7 have required some treatment to improve their hearing.

In consideration of the fact that this is an invisible problem and requires wider dissemination, we have also been promoting the #Solo1minuto campaign in the media, schools, businesses and various institutions; to make us participate in the International Noise Awareness Day, which was celebrated this year on 26 April.

We want to thank you because your support has made it possible for us to continue our work of spreading and making present the importance of hearing health in Panama. With these actions we seek to talk openly about hearing problems, take them into greater consideration and take preventive care, when it is not too late. For this work, the foundation will be ready to provide the necessary care.

Best regards!