Health, Hope And Happiness In Afghanistan

2018 Bayat Foundation - Starkey Hearing Foundation Afghanistan Hearing Care Mission Restores The Hearing Of 1,500 Afghans

KABUL, Afghanistan, Oct. 8, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Demonstrating its unbreakable commitment  to provide Hearing, Healing and Hope to all Afghans affected by deafness or hearing impairment, The Bayat Foundation (www.bayatfoundation.org), Afghanistan's largest private charitable organization, together in partnership with Starkey Hearing Foundation (www.starkeyhearingfoundation.org), announced the successful completion of their Fifth Annual Bayat-Starkey Afghanistan Hearing Care Mission.

Hosted on the grounds of Kabul's Bayat Media Center (BMC), from October 1^st to October 5^th, The 2018 Bayat-Starkey Afghanistan Hearing Care Mission provided more than 1,240 Afghans affected by deafness or hearing impairment with The Gift of Hearing, through the provision of hearing aids as well as hearing assessment and treatment services.

The 2018 Afghanistan Hearing Care Mission was launched with an October 1^st Dedication Ceremony, hosted by Dr. Ehsanollah Bayat, Co-Chairman of the Bayat Foundation and Chairman of The Bayat Group. Speaking to an audience of Afghan government officials, Starkey Hearing Foundation partners, NGO representatives and volunteers from The Bayat Group and Bayat Foundation, Dr. Bayat thanked the audience for their "fierce determination to deliver the Gift of Hearing—the gift of connection to a better life—to the thousands of patients and their extended families we help today." 

The Dedication Ceremony was attended by a number of senior government officials, and civic leaders, including Dr. Ferozuddin Feroz, Minister of Public Health, Mr. Nader Naderi, Chief of Independent Administrative Reform, Mrs. Zohra Yusuf Daoud, Adviser to the First Lady of Afghanistan, and Dr. Kenneth M. Holland, President of The American University of Afghanistan.

The 2018 Afghanistan Hearing Care Mission is the fifth in a series of joint missions by the Bayat Foundation and the Starkey Hearing Foundation, which since 2014, have provided The Gift of Hearing, and vital hearing aftercare assistance to more than 7,000 Afghans living in every region of the nation.

Throughout the 2018 Afghanistan Hearing Care Mission, each individual seeking treatment for deafness or hearing impairment was examined by members of the Bayat-Starkey Hearing Care Teams. Each Bayat-Starkey Hearing Care Team is comprised of an international group of Audiologists, Hearing Care Specialists and highly trained volunteers from The Bayat Group and The Bayat Foundation.