Welcome to Sound Seekers

Sound Seekers is dedicated to helping deaf and hearing-impaired people, especially children, in the developing world. We develop and support projects that improve access to education, lessen the impact of hearing loss and raise awareness of deaf people's abilities and needs.

What's New

SS - SPRING LOGOSpring is finally on its way and we are looking forward to some new beginnings.

Thanks to generous donations from the States of Jersey Overseas Aid Commission, we are about to start a targeted paediatric screening project in Makeni in Sierra Leone and a tele-audiology project in Malawi and Zambia. This is a new departure for us, as we have previously focused on providing mobile outreach vehicles to our partner countries. We hope that this will open up new ways of helping deaf people in Africa.

We’re also on the move, in big and small ways:

Colin and Emily recently visited Sierra Leone to kickstart the screening project, where we’re working with St Joseph’s School for the Deaf in Makeni. Lucy is going to the Coalition for Global Hearing Health in Nashville soon, so that she can actually meet our partners rather than just email them, and Lucy and Emily are going to Cameroon together in May to negotiate for our new project there.


A pupil at St Joseph’s School for the Deaf, Makeni, Sierra Leone

 

Closer to home, we have two new Board members who are already bringing vigour and energy to our Board and a lovely new Office Manager. You can see who everyone is here.

Finally, we will be in our new offices at the UCL Ear Institute from late April.

It’s all go and we’re full of energy; come and say hello any time and you might even get tea and a biscuit too.