NEW RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT: PARENTS’ VOICES IN LMIC

Raising awareness of CI for children and infants in Low and Middle Income Countries  

A new project: Thank you to all those who have helped by sending in their stories!

Huge thanks for all the wonderful stories from across the globe, for people who have taken the time to share their journey so that we can all learn from each other. Thanks too for our team who have been collecting these stories and making it happen. 

We currently have 69 stories from 18 countries: Angola, Armenia, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Georgia, Guatemala, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Nepal, Panama, Paraguay, South Africa, Uganda, Ukraine, Vietnam. On World Hearing Day we shall be sharing some quotes from these, and then going on to prepare them to be shared on the website.

Our recent series of CIICA Conversations focused on strengthening access to CIs and related CI services for Infants and Children in Low and Middle Income Countries. These discussions shed light on a critical need to raise awareness for the successes and challenges that families face on the CI pathway. Please visit  www.ciicanet.org/events to read the meeting summaries.

The group that has been driving the Conversations are facilitating this effort by collecting stories, sharing them and reporting on the challenges and successes so that we can all learn from them. The stories highlight challenges and successes in accessing and using CIs and corresponding services for their children as part of Ear and Hearing Care.

Look out for future information.

 

 

THANK YOU FOR ALL THE STORIES SUBMITTED FROM ACROSS THE GLOBE! 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CIICA are currently collating all the stories and will write a report on the topics that arise in these stories from parents/legal guardians.

PLEASE NOTE: CIICA reserves the right to review and edit all stories and select those that appear on the website and other CIICA communication tools.

 It all begins with Awareness – without Awareness there is no Information, no Demand and no Access!  Carolina Der, WHO 

See videos from two young adults, advocating for services in LMIC:

Elaine Mukkaya, Uganda

Melis Durmaz Yıldırım, Turkey