To see a child receive the gift of hearing is an incredible sight. Their smile could light up a town :) "So The World May Hear" is the slogan, and Stark Hearing Foundation is the name. Stark Foundation is really making smiles around the world.
They claim that 95% of kids in deaf schools are actually not deaf - they can hear with a hearing aid. Stark Hearing Foundation goes around the world distributing free hearing aids to individuals in need. Hearing aids can cost up to $10,000. Most people cannot afford this and that is where the Stark Hearing Foundation comes to the rescue!
In October of 2012, the Stark Foundation surprised 74 kids with free hearing aids at the Yankees game!
At the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI), William F. Austin made the goal of delivering 1 million hearing aids by 2020. They have already delivered over 800,000 hearing aids in more than 100 countries since 2000. William believes that hearing is the answer to so many problems in the world including poverty and illiteracy.
The Stark Hearing Foundation is doing some amazing work. This is one of the senses that so many take for granted and never think twice about. Giving the gift of hearing is simply beautiful.
Peace & Love,
Jon
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Donna Bland from Wake Forest, NC is helping others through music. Music is one thing that she has never had problems concentrating on. She wrote a song and made a video about her experience with ADHD and decided to submit her music video to a contest at the National Resource Center on ADHD.
Well whadda ya know?! - Her video won the grand prize. Her video will be featured at the 2012 Children & Adults with ADHD Conference in San Francisco! She also gets a number of prizes including stardom :)
Good World News is bringing you the video hit. Check it out, and singalong :)
Peace & Love,
Jon
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"I whip my hair back and forth!". No this isn't the song by Willow Smith :) This good news story is about seven students at Oak Knoll "upper school" in Summit, New Jersey.
On October 13th, seven great students donated their hair to the American Cancer Society as part of the Pantene's Beautiful Lengths program. The hair gets made into wigs for patients going through chemotherapy. So far, the Pantene program has donated over 24,000 real-hair wigs to the American Cancer Society.
The seven students and their Physical Education teacher, Rachel Lasda, each donated at least 8 inches of hair. Lasda has donated her hair several times and thought this time she would get students involved in honor of October's Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
Ms. Lasda stated, "It is crazy how something most of us take for granted can be such a beautiful gift for someone going through one of the most difficult times in her life,". Eight grader, Elizabeth Sweetra (what a fitting name!) commented on why she donated her hair - "I wanted to donate it because I really wanted to be able to give some other girl the gift to have hair again,". After seeing how little 8 inches is, Elizabeth decided to take off two more inches!
Another Oak Knoll student donating her hair
Donating my hair was an amazing experience," Mary Mallany '15 said. "It felt so freeing and gratifying to feel the weight of my hair leave my shoulders. I know that it may be a while until my hair grows back, but honestly it's worth it. The most important thing to me was that I knew that someone would hopefully gain a bit of happiness from it."
On thing is for sure - they are making positive differences in peoples lives!
Peace & Love,
Jon
- The Good World News