Left to right: Rose Barbour, Steve
Wong and Peter Russell
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
A
hearing aid recycling program that provides hearing aids to low-income
Islanders has recently received a donation of new hearing aids. Peter Russell
with Signia first heard about the Hear, Hear PEI
program from Steve Wong at PEI Hearing Consultants and wanted to help. “Hear,
Hear PEI is doing meaningful work on the Island. It is our pleasure to help
with it,” says Russell.
Rose
and Mike Barbour, Hear, Hear PEI’s founders, are grateful for this generous
donation from Signia, which will allow them to help even more Islanders
who apply to their program. “We receive many applications from Islanders who
would benefit from hearing aids, but can’t afford them,” says Mike Barbour.
“Thanks to the new and used hearing aid donations that we receive, we are able
to help some of them to hear again. We couldn’t do any of it without our
hearing aid donors.”
Hearing
loss has a significant impact on the lives of Islanders. The Barbours are
learning all about it through the applications that come in. “Every person who
applies through Hear, Hear PEI has a story that really tugs at your
heartstrings and you wish you could help them all,” says Rose Barbour. “One
applicant shared how hearing loss prevented her from hearing the fire alarm in
her building for a full fifteen minutes. That is pretty scary. Today, she is a
very grateful recipient of hearing aids through our program.”
Wong,
a board-certified hearing instrument specialist with PEI Hearing Consultants,
volunteers his time to fit Hear, Hear PEI clients with hearing aids and in
their follow up care. “With Steve, we know that our clients are in good hands
and that means a lot,” says Rose Barbour. “We also appreciate the many other
ways that he supports our program, including promoting it to companies like Signia.”
Islanders
who have hearing aids to donate can drop them off at any Murphy’s Pharmacies
location on PEI. The more hearing aids that Hear, Hear PEI receives, the
more Islanders they can help.
