ADEN, YEMEN: King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Centre (KSrelief) recently provided diagnoses to 300 students with hearing impairments the Yemeni governorates of Aden and Hadramawt. The services were provided at centers for people with disabilities in in preparation for providing the students with hearing aids. The project is part of a larger KSrelief initiative, “Institutional Capacity Building Project for Governmental Centers and Schools Working in the Fields of Education and Literacy for Students and People with Disabilities”.

Osama Bagadi, the Project Director, clarified that the project aims to distribute 300 digital hearing aids to students with hearing impairments. He added that the first stage of the project would be diagnosis and audiometry testing, followed by the distribution and fitting of the hearing devices.

The Director of the Care and Rehabilitation Society for the Deaf, Etidal Salam, said that the project would have a tangible impact the lives of these students; medical intervention to improve their hearing will help the students to succeed in school and in life. 

The project will contribute to addressing some of the main challenges facing educational institutions working in the fields of education and literacy for students and people with disabilities by providing school equipment for 20 centers for people with disabilities and 10 literacy schools in the governorates of Aden, Abyan, and Hadramawt.