OREANDA-NEWS. August 07, 2009. Last Christmas, Aizkraukles Banka and AB.LV Sabiedriska labuma fonds held a charity campaign “Help Children Hear”. During this campaign, the bank customers were invited to make donations to children development. To appreciate donations, Aizkraukles Banka doubled the amount of donations, adding one lat to each donated lat, to double the joy in children’s hearts, reported the press-centre of Aizkraukles Banka.

We are glad to inform that donated amounts allowed reaching the set goal, and now Laura, Marcis and Eduards can hear.

Laura is seven years old and suffers from profound hearing loss since infancy. In 2005, the girl underwent ear surgery, but desired results were not achieved. Laura goes to logopedic class in primary school “Valodina” and dreams of going to ordinary school with other children some day. She likes singing, drawing and reading books. Laura has problems with speech understanding. In such cases it is essential to reduce background noise to improve quality of speech understanding, and that is why Laura needs a special hearing device, which is not in the list of state-compensated medical devices. To help Laura, LVL 2240 were necessary.

Marcis is four years old, and he suffers from moderately severe binaural sensorineural hearing loss. For this reason, Marcis has significant problems with learning to speak, since speech perception is impeded by everyday background noise and considerable hearing impairment. Marcis goes to a nursery school and likes drawing and painting, he willingly helps his mom in doing light housework. To help Marcis, hearing devices worth LVL 2200 were needed.

Eduards is three years old, and he suffers from severe binaural sensorineural hearing loss. When the boy was a year and three months old, he became sick with purulent meningitis because of the doctors’ carelessness and his parents’ ignorance. The complications of disease caused almost complete loss of hearing. Eduards goes to a special nursery school, is very communicable, bright, nice and curious. He is always cheerful and friendly to everyone. To help Eduards, the necessary hearing devices worth LVL 2200 were bought.

Within the framework of the “Help Children Hear” charity campaign, we cooperate with the fund “Ziedot” that, based on the medical opinions of Latvian Hearing Centre, chooses the children most needing financial support from society.

The art of communication enables all of us to live full life. Thanks everyone who responded to our call and made donations to children! We will continue welcoming donations to our charity programmes, so that we can do a lot of socially-significant good together and bring joy to the people around us.

Aizkraukles Banka and AB.LV Sabiedriska labuma fonds encourage good deeds.