This is the13th year of working with the underserved of Southern Africa (from 1998 – 2008 Mozambique and 2009 & 2010 South Africa) who are deaf or suffer from hearing loss.ف فThe focus of the mission has always been to build relationship and leave substance by engaging with local professionals in the program which includes: school screenings (for incidence/prevalence measures); community hearing clinics to identify and refer those with remediable hearing loss as well as dispense hearing aids according to the World Health Organization guidelines; and enrich the local deaf education programs.ف This year’s hearing health care team will travel from Johannesburg west to the Vredeforte Dome area to work in local schools and health clinics, then we will travel east to Mpumalanga Province (which borders with Mozambique) at Bushbuckridge where we will connect with ~30 Audiology students and faculty from U. Witwatersrand to work in local schools and other health clinics (one of which is Xanthia Program).
