Educating & equipping hearing health workers for a better tomorrow.

 
© Philipp Rathmer

Reducing hearing impairment starts with equipping clinicians with the right tools.

EARS Inc. is an Australian, not-for-profit organisation which helps people hear in low and middle income countries (LMIC). For over 20 years, EARS Inc. has trained and equipped individuals and agencies in several LMIC to provide sustainable hearing healthcare. Our vision is for deaf and hearing-impaired people in LMIC to have access to the hearing services they need to help them to become self-sufficient and achieve their potential. We serve and empower people, irrespective of nationality, race, gender or religion, while showing the love of Jesus through our words and actions.

In the name of Jesus, we create sustainable hearing healthcare in LMIC through the S.T.O.R.E. framework:

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Evaluation & Promotion

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News From the Field

Latest Updates
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2021 - year in review
All Ears No. 24
All Ears No. 24

During this global COVID-19 pandemic, we have all experienced many changes in our lives. We hope that you are finding new ways to stay in touch and are not feeling disconnected.

Fiji Update
Fiji Update

During this trip we began FM Training for the staff and fitting of the FM devices. These are devices a child with a hearing aid can use in addition to their hearing aid to allow a child to hear the teacher clearer.

Fiji Update
Fiji Update

After finally getting my work permit I was able to leave and get to Fiji. I arrived in time for the annual wheelbarrow race and to see our partner organization Frank Hilton Organisation raise much needed funds for the all the work that they are doing.

Papua New Guinea Update
Papua New Guinea Update

Desmond and Jane are incredibly busy people who have added studying the Diploma in Audiometry through TAFE to their already full lives. We are supporting them by providing practical training and workplace supervision for them during this time.

Papua New Guinea Update
Papua New Guinea Update

Volunteer Paul Flynn from Victoria will be flying up to Port Moresby to meet with 8 staff from Callan, including the audiometry students Jane and Desmond, in order to run training in equipment calibration and servicing.

Papua New Guinea Update
Papua New Guinea Update

We have finally managed to enroll both students from Papua New Guinea in the TAFE NSW Diploma of Audiometry. These two students are Community Health Workers who currently train others in the PNG for Primary eye and ear health care.

Papua New Guinea Update
Papua New Guinea Update

Earlier this year I wrote a grant application for Hear the World, a corporate nonprofit foundation founded by Sonova working towards equal opportunities and better quality of life for people with hearing loss. We have now been told we received this grant. This grant will help to cover costs for me and other volunteers to visit Papua New Guinea (PNG) for supervision of the students over the next 2 years.

Help us continue our work.

Donations allow us to continue to send equipment, educators, and training materials to our partner locations all around the world. Volunteer with us locally or overseas and submit prayer requests as we strive to reduce hearing impairment.

Who We Help

Your generosity directly supports our projects around the globe, and helps our clinicians & educators reduce the impact of hearing impairment. See below how your donations & volunteer involvement work to provide sustainable hearing healthcare around the world.

Who We Help
Sevanaia Tuks
Fiji
Sevanaia Tuks
Fiji

I am always thanking God for leading me to this organization to serve the hearing-impaired people of my country, especially small children. We have touched so many lives in helping them to hear and learn speech thus improving their education and life opportunities. For me and my clinic, we have been supported by EARS Inc. since my training in the Dominican Republic. All this work would have been impossible if EARS was not there. I must thank all members of this wonderful organization and everyone who has been part of it in helping to set up clinics in developing countries like Fiji.

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Fiji
Victorino Family Luna
Dominican Republic
Victorino Family Luna
Dominican Republic

The Lord sent Donna to us to rescue the youth of that neighbourhood and give us a future that we would not have been able to dream of. God bless her for rescuing me, making me a better person, and giving me a future. Through the EARS Inc. audiology training program, she taught me for three years, gave me a profession and the ability to help my family and others in my community. Since 2014, I have worked as a Hearing Care Professional at CCSM (Centro Cristiano de Servicios Medicos) where people with little money can be helped. Today I can say that I can serve others like she served me.

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Dominican Republic
Jane Saun
Papua New Guinea
Jane Saun
Papua New Guinea

I would like to express my sincere gratitude to Donna from Inc. for all her time, effort and sacrifice. She is such a great teacher and audiologist. I am also grateful to audiologists Judith Francis and Mahes Satchi, Hear The World, Callan Services National Unit (CSNU) for the ear health, hearing and other services that they are providing throughout Papua New Guinea to the needy, marginalized and the ones who are at risk, and Oceania Christian Brothers for their continuous support in assisting Br Desmond and me in our studies. May God continue to bless your ministry of serving people’s lives.

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We’re Committed to Changing The World

The Impact Suite has awarded EARS Inc with a Social Impact 2020 Rating by demonstrating above average governance. Help us reduce the incidence and impact of hearing impairment by donating or volunteering with us!