Introducing our first donor!

I am so pleased to provide a good news update on our Hear, Hear PEI initiative. Today, I was presented with our first hearing aid by Kathy Weatherbie who lovingly made the donation in memory of her wonderful father, Alphonse Gallant, who passed away just over a year ago.

Kathy wrote a beautiful letter to give to the recipient of her dad’s hearing aid. She said that I could share it with you.

This hearing aid is a gift from my dad ~ Alphonse Gallant ~ he is helping you from heaven L and would take great pride in knowing someone is benefitting from what once helped him so much in his life...the gift of hearing. He was the most thoughtful and giving person on earth and took every opportunity to help others and encouraged his children to go through life doing the same. That is why I was compelled to donate his hearing aid to the Hear, Hear PEI initiative that the wonderful Rose and Mike Barbour are leading. It is a fantastic program that I hope and pray will be successful with the help of many donors!

Kathy is just the type of person that we need to reach. There are many people who have hearing aids sitting in a drawer after a loved ones passing.  Those hearing aids could be life-changing for another Islander. Though it is so hard to part with things that belonged to loved ones, please know that you are giving a beautiful gift to someone else.

There are also people out there who have upgraded their hearing aids or had to switch to different ones for some reason. We could really use your old hearing aids for the program as well. Every donation is appreciated!

Without hearing aids, there will be no program. Please give if you can by emailing hearhearpei@gmail.com. We would be happy to make arrangements to pick them up or give you directions to our home to drop them off. We could even meet you somewhere. Whatever works for you!

Sincerely,

Rose and Mike