A group of National Football League stars has spent the past week travelling through Rwanda and Uganda fitting free hearing aids on people too poor to afford them.
Notable NFL stars on the trip included: Tennessee Titans' Derrick Morgan, Tampa Bay Bucs' Gerald McCoy, Cincinnati Bengals' Roy Williams, former Chicago Bears' Tommie Harris, San Francisco 49ers' Vernon Davis, Miami Dolphins' Vontae Davis and Minnesota Vikings' Bryant McKinnie and Adrian Peterson.
They travelled through remote areas of Rwanda as well as the capital Kigali as part of an effort to distribute more than 22,000 hearing aids to needy people in Africa.
The initiative was organised by the Eden Prairie, Minnesota-based Starkey Hearing Foundation and Pros for Africa, a non-profit organisation based in Okhlahoma City.And these are truly remote whose families are extremely poor. Even the poorest of towns in the U.S. in Africa would Africans regard them as one of the richest towns in Africa. These are the rays of hope that these guys can give with the help of the Starkey Hearing Foundation.
One single switch of a hearing aid inspires hundreds. Multiply that by 22,000 hearing aids and you have one heck of an inspiration impacting millions of people. Each year Starkey Hearing Foundation give away over 100,000 hearing aids.
Priceless.
No wonder Marlee Matlin supports the Starkey Hearing Foundation.
2 comments:
What are the provisions being made for battery supplies?
Real eye opener for me: being acosted in Havana & being asked if I had batteries to spare. He explained that he'd gotten a hearing aid from some charity/donation thing, but had the worst time finding batteries. I gave him every single battery I had on me at the time. Are these guys going to get batteries supplied as well?
Each hearing aid gets a year's supply of batteries. Batteries can be ordered and delivered by the local dispensaries. For example, read this one here.
http://www.bryantmckinnie.com/news/mckinnie-jumps-on-board-for-african-eelief-expedition-by-mark-craig/
Understand, these are poor, rural areas that getting anything delivered is hard. Starkey Hearing Foundation realizes that and they make every effort to ensure a continuing supply of batteries.
But they didn't go to Havana. They can't get into Cuba. They have not gone to Cuba! This is Cuba we're talking about. I think you were probably scammed for your hearing aid batteries and you took the word of some stranger, browneyedgirl?
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