Indonesia

In Indonesia, we can rely on our long-time associate and friend Manfred Stoifl, who as Asia responsible for the foundation is steering and monitoring our projects locally and beyond in Asia.

Currently we are supporting a loan guarantee which enables families in Indonesia to get a low interest loan for Cochlear Implants. The project is executed  in cooperation with Indonesia-hear foundation, one of the biggest local parent groups and BNI one of the biggest banks in Indonesia.

Other projects under way are:

Long-term educational support in the field of paediatric audiology and speech training

Currently there are only very few educational institutions teaching basic audiology and speech training in Indonesia.  Whatever limited infrastructure there is, is grossly underfunded, isolated from the international community and starved of knowhow. We are planning to cooperate with international known teachers in the respective fields to come to Indonesia 3 -4 times per year over the next 3- 4 years to provide these institutions and students for the much-needed foundation to slowly elevate education in these fields to international standard.

A mobile audiological clinic

... which will be available to less developed areas based on a schedule which will be worked out and maintained with the Indonesian Society for the Prevention of Deafness, a local NGO and local ENT departments. The clinic will be staffed and operated by our local partner in Indonesia, PT Alat Bantu Dengar Indonesia under the supervision of Manfred Stoifl. This mobile clinic will for the first time bring sophisticated audiological test to impoverished children.

Mobile surgical microscope

The provision of mobile surgical microscope to Indonesian ENT society. This microscope will be utilized to, on one hand treat common ear problems is children preventing unnecessary hearing impairment and deafness, and for the training of ENT surgeons in smaller and provincial hospitals.