We make our connections in this world through communication. Communication is how we express ourselves, verbal and non-verbal. Communication is how we express what we need and what we want.Communication is how we learn to form relationships. Communication is the key to society.
What happens when you take away the ability to communicate? Are we even human? Could society--the world--sustain itself without communication? Sound is communication--or one form of it. If we cannot hear anything, we lose the basic means of communication that the majority hold.That’s what people who are hearing impaired have to go through. They are deprived of one of the most basic privileges of life: sound.
As a person with severe hearing loss--almost completely deaf--I understand what it is like to be deprived of one of the essential senses that comprise human beings. But unlike other people, I am lucky, being born into a family that could afford to give me the resources to get most of the hearing I was deprived of. So I can understand the preciousness of sound.
However, there are people who are not as lucky as I am. In the Tembwe Village of the Salima District, in Malawi, Africa, eight children with hearing loss, cannot afford to be opened up to the world like I could.Their whole lives--they cannot even begin to know the foundations of society, of basic human nature. For them to get hearing aids is to open them to education, to love, to connection, and to themselves--finding their place in this world.
But how can we help them build their connections in the world? We need to raise money to provide these resources, to open the worlds of these children. The non-profit organization, Educate Elevate Empower, or E3, has the goal of building self-sustaining communities through education and technology. By providing the technology of hearing aids to those with hearing loss, we further advance the goal of E3 to allow access to the resources that these communities do not have. Please consider donating, link below, so these children can get the hearing aids they need to open up their world to sound.
With Love and Gratitude,
Coco-Marie Scura, E3 Publicist
