TRANSFORMING LIVES THROUGH BETTER HEARING
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with our organisation in giving the joy of sound to more than 47,000 people living with hearing loss in Kitwe, Zambia. Our various Partners are making a difference in the lives of Vulnerable people who are living with hearing loss in Kitwe.
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Our goal S ARE:
- to provide hearing aids to more than 300 vulnerable people living with hearing loss in kitwe,zambia IN 2025.
- TO SCREEN AND TEST MORE THAN 5000 vulnerable people living with hearing loss in kitwe,zambia in 2025
- to raise awareness on hearing loss and hearing health through outreach programs to visiting patients in 38 public health centres in kitwe in 2025
Join and Support our Outreach hearing screening program; help make an impact
Kitwe has an estimated population of 792,350.With a national hearing loss prevalence rate at 6% it is estimated that about 47541 people are living with various forms of hearing loss .About 19,000 out of 47541 are estimated to be poor and vulnerable.
They cannot afford the cost of consultation and audiometric testing fees that are charged at various public and Private health centres in Zambia. The average fees for consultation are K300 per visit. Audiometric tests cost K300 and hearing aids cost K3,000 per aid.
Kitwe is devoid of Public and private health Institutions that offer audiometric testing services thereby living people with hearing loss having to travel about 68Km to Arthur Davison Children’s hospital in Ndola to access audiometric services. It costs K150 for a person to travel to Ndola and back to Kitwe on Public transport. These costs are beyond the means of more than 19,000 people who are living with hearing loss in Kitwe.
In order to mitigate their circumstances, ZAHDIP embarked on an Outreach Screening and testing Pilot Program at 5 Public Health centres to screen and test for hearing loss with a view of identifying people with hearing loss within their residential locations who are in need of hearing aids. Since March 2023,the program has screened more than 4,000 people and out of which 102 people have benefited from free hearing aids donated by the Bath SpecSaver Store and the Bath Rotary Club in the UK.
The Charity plans to scale up the Outreach Screening program in order to reach out to more people through their local Primary Health care centres. Kitwe District has a total number of 38 Public primary Health Centres and out of which 15 are located in peri Urban areas of Kitwe, where population is dense and where poverty levels are high.
The Program is targeting to screen and test 10,000 people in 2025 in order to identify about 300 most vulnerable people to fit free donated hearing aids.
You can make a difference by making a donation towards the program.
