Hear the World volunteers, Tamar Gelbgisser, Joern Klages and Douglas Baldwin joined the Mandalay School for the Deaf Charity team in Myanmar in November 2017. This enabled children at both schools to benefit from the expertise of these volunteers and state of the art hearing aids to be fitted to all children that could benefit. ...
In November 2017 teams from Mandalay School for the Deaf Charity traveled to Myanmar to work with their colleagues in both the Yangon and Mandalay Schools for the Deaf. They were joined for the first time by colleagues from the Hear the World Foundation. In a very busy two weeks much was achieved. All the new intake into both the schools had detailed hearing assessments and 85 new hearing aids were fitted. Special attention was paid to addressing the problems...
Fundraising Concert by The Gentlemen of St John’s College Cambridge The wonderful concert given by the choral scholars of St John’s College on September 2 raised £7,000, with ticket sales and donations. The beautiful baroque church of Great Witley was absolutely full and proved the perfect setting. Our thanks to everyone who contributed to making this a splendid evening and a most successful fundraising event. And a special thanks to Ballard Dale Syree Watson chartered accountants who sponsored the concert, MFG...
Newsround Myanmar Robin Youngs, Consultant ENT Surgeon, Gloucester Hospitals, UK; Khin Hla Hla, Professor of ENT and Tin Maung Win, Lecturer, ENT Teaching Hospital, Yangon, March 2017 saw the visit to the UK of two doctors tasked by the Ministry of Health in Myanmar with developing services for those with deafness in their country. Prof Khin Hla Hla and Dr Tin Maung Win spent two weeks on a busy tour of centres involved with hearing diagnosis, treatment and education. They travelled...