NEWS FLASH
Word of Mouth‘s Andrew Willis and team have negotiated an excellent deal on bulk alternate listening devices, and THEN sponsored HALF of them.
What extraordinary people we are working with!”
EXCITING NEW CLINIC SITE – KATHMANDU AREA
Shechen Monastery
A preliminary meeting was held with Shechen Monastery, Aruna Raim – Managing Director of the Clinic, Dr Deepeara Sharma – Medical Director and Manoj – Public Liaison, Sangye, (KOPAN), Keshab (NAHOH) and lew (HearingNEPAL Program) to discuss a new clinic at Shechen Monastery, near Bouda.
Keshab and Sangye will follow up, after they consider our offer to run a clinic 2 days a month (Primary ear care and hearing assessment with ENT referral or rehabilitation using hearing devices.)
We have offered to check all the school children after May when equipment generously donated by Australian clinics will be refurbished and calibrated with the support of the Whitsunday Lions Club and Bozzy and Doug from GN Otometrics.
HEARING AID MOULDS NOW MADE BY NAHOH STAFF in NEPAL
Thanks to the generosity of a young couple from Germany and their friends (more on them later, after they finish their bike ride through China etc) NAHOH has the latest manual technology to make hearing aid moulds. Keshab and Sarita have mastered the training, and so the program is no longer limited by the moulds being made in Australia.
Bernafon Australia has agreed to pay Keshab’s wages for the next year.
Natalie with Keshab & Sarita
Natalie from Oman will seek family agreement to partly sponsor Sarita. (3/8 of Sarita’s wages will be paid by NAHOH)
Here Natalie watches Keshab and Sarita demonstrate their new skills in mould manufacture.
Word of Mouth (Melbourne) and Docs Pro mouldscontinue their valued sponsorships
Thank you sponsors, you make it happen.
HearingNEPAL Program has a new “look”
- We have a committee, for which the public may nominate!
- We have an ABN, registered as an “unincorporated institution” operating as a not-for-profit charity
- We have submitted to AusAID our 113 page application for “Approved Organisation” status, with the view to eventually obtaining “Deductible Gift Recipient” status, which may mean that donations made directly to our “HNP Australian Overseas Aid Fund” will be eligible as a tax deduction for the donor.
- We have a revamped web site, to which Katie White from PHEONIX Design has donated endless hours of her time.
Hearing Aid Donations
- We are now able to fit multiple brands in Nepal.
- 18 Hearing Services providers have generously responded with bundles of good-condition aids which are being sorted at Whitsunday Hearing and Bernafon
- Sonic, Siemens and Phonak have supplied parts free of charge
- WE share our aids with David Hine in Pokhara (Nepal) and Jeanette Mouatt (PNG)
- Keshab from NAHOH is our main service provider in Nepal, and they expect to fit 250 plus hearing aids and ALDs this year and check over 2000 children’s and adult’s ears. NAHOH is involved in running surgical camps with Nepali ENTs, open to all persons
Equipment Donations
- A diagnostic audiometer and a tympanometer have been donated, forming the basis of our new clinic at Shechen public clinic, near Bouda, Nepal.
DEDICATED FOR THE BENEFIT OF ALL
EXCITING, ISN’T IT!