Our Mission: "Sound Seekers works in partnership with developing countries in the Commonwealth to increase awareness of, and assist in, the prevention and treatment of deafness among children"

Sound Seekers in Action More than 120 million people across the world - half of whom are children - suffer from preventable hearing impairment. In developing countries, these people often have no access to basic hearing assessment, treatment, medicines or even transport to what limited facilities there are. The first contact they might have with medical or audiological specialists is often provided by Sound Seekers.

We achieve our mission to help change these young lives by:

• Establishing and improving audiology services in developing countries of The Commonwealth to screen for and treat hearing loss and ear disease

• Providing HARK! mobile earcare clinics which deliver outreach services as part of community healthcare programmes

• Supplying audiological equipment to schools and associations for the deaf

• Training rural clinic technicians in audiology and audiology equipment maintenance

• Informing rural communities about 'good ear health'

Sound Seekers has supported work all over the Commonwealth from Bangladesh to Barbados, Ghana, Jamaica, Nigeria, South Africa, Zambia and more. We have begun work to establish a major project in Sierra Leone, and have recently extended our HARK! programme to India.

To ensure we provide support where it is most needed, the Society now has a policy of channeling its efforts to the Commonwealth's twenty poortest countries in terms of human development, as measured by the United National Human Development Programme. At present these are: Sierra Leone, Mozambique, Malawi, Zambia, Gambia, Nigeria, Kenya, Uganda, Lesotho, Pakistan, Cameroon, Bangladesh, Swaziland, papua New Guinea, Ghana, Vanuatu, Botswana, India, Namibia, Solomon Islands.

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