Starkey Foundation helps LA kids
Sep 25th, 2007 | By Steve | Category: NewsYesterday, 150 kids got a very special gift - the ability to hear clearly. It’s a project of the Starkey Hearing Foundation, who came to L.A. with one goal in mind - to give children in need hearing aids.
Sixteen-year-old Krista Gillinger is about to get the thrill of her life. One hundred and fifty children whose families can’t afford the high cost of hearing aids are getting the chance to experience clear hearing — many for the first time.
“If any one person is diminished, that diminishes all of us, because it diminishes our society,” said Bill Austin of the Starkey Hearing Foundation.
Austin travels the world, giving tens of thousands of people who can’t afford it free hearing aids — 10,000 in the U.S. last year alone.
“There are many, many insurance [policies] that don’t include hearing aids,” said Austin. “So for a lot of people, a hearing aid is a little bit out of their economic reach.”
Read the full article on abc7.com
Even some families cannot afford batteries. So, the kids are left with little Lego bricks?
I don’t know but I would guess that the Starkey Foundation had thought of that and either supply batteries or rechargeable aids. As the original article says, they have supplied 10,000+ hearingaids this year alone and so they must have solved the batteries problem a long time ago.
They never mentioned batteries on their ABC glory hole moment, and they never mentioned batteries now.
I would like confirmation on whether they give batteries or not to those who cannot afford the cost.