by Neil Bauman, Ph.D.
From time to time people ask me where they can send their old hearing aids so that needy hard of hearing people can benefit from them.
There are a number of organizations that collect and refurbish used hearing aids and then distribute them to needy hard of hearing people. Below are three of them.
Send your old hearing aids to the organization of your choice and they will use them to provide hearing aids for people that could not otherwise afford them.
1. Hear Now (The Starkey Hearing Foundation)
To learn more about the mission of Hear Now and how they help thousands of hard of hearing people around the world, point your browser to: http://www.sotheworldmayhear.org/forms/hearnow.php
Send used hearing aids to them at:
Hear Now
6700 Washington Avenue South
Eden Prairie, MN 55344
1-800-648-4327
2. The Hearing Aid Bank (Iowa Lions Clubs)
Many Lion’s Clubs collect used hearing aids for needy people in their areas. To learn how the Iowa Lion’s Clubs use their Hearing Aid Bank to help needy hard of hearing people in Iowa, point your browser to: http://www.ioweb.com/marshalltown/rhoda_bender.htm
Current contact information is at:
http://www.ioweb.com/marshalltown/hearing_aid_bank.htm
Send used hearing aids to them at:
Iowa Lions Hearing Aid Bank
Rhoda Bender, Coordinator
310 N. 4th St.
Marshalltown, IA 50158
Phone: 641-752-4337
E-Mail: rhodabender@iowalions.org
3. Hope of Hearing (The United Methodist Church)
Hope of Hearing sends used hearing aids to Starkey to be reconditioned. Starkey then supplies them with reconditioned hearing aids that Hope for Hearing takes to Haiti and gives to needy hard of hearing children and adults living there.
To learn more about this project, point your browser to:
http://www.gcumm.org/resources/?_filters[categories]=Ministry+To+Men and click on the “Hope of Hearing” link further down the page.
Send used hearing aids to them at:
Gil Hanke
3644 Burwick Place
Antioch, TN 37013
phone: (866) 297-4312
