FOLLOW-UP ON HEARING AIDS Dr. Gene Bukowski is a member of IDEA’s board of directors back in Montana. For many years he has worked closely with Dennis Drake to further the cause of providing hearing aids to IDEA’s deaf children. It was because of Dr. Gene that Starkey Hearing Foundation was introduced to the work of IDEA in the Philippines …
New Beginnings
A House Raising Philippine Style IDEA’s deaf families have been waiting a long time to finally see this day arrive. The first four houses are finally being erected on the IDEA purchased one half acre property on the out-skits of Tagbilaran City on the island of Bohol. The government red tape has been deep. These micro homes are just starter …
A Evening At BDA
Like One Big Happy Family This scene up at Bohol Deaf Academy one evening last week was not staged for the camera. Dennis Drake just dropped in and found the deaf kids sitting around on the stage and at a couple of tables doing random projects and chatting. The atmosphere was so very peaceful and so family like that Dennis …
What’s Cooking in Bohol
Visiting Canadian Chefs CESO (Canadian Executive Service Organization)teamed up with IDEA this February to help improve the food and service of IDEA’s various restaurant businesses. Altogether the two Garden Cafes and Dao Diamond Hotel employ 14 deaf cooks and bakers. Some of these cooks have been working with us for almost 30 years and although they are quite proficient, there …
What’s Cooking in Bohol
CESO (Canadian Executive Service Organization)teamed up with IDEA this February to help improve the food and service of IDEA’s various restaurant businesses.
Polynesian Theme at Dao Diamond
A New Hotel Theme We recently discovered that one of IDEA’s deaf carpentry employees has an amazing ability at sculpting. Because our Dao Diamond Hotel has changed its motif to Polynesian it was thought that we needed a Tiki or two around to add to the atmosphere so Arnold the carpenter was given a small photo to go by and …
Micro House
The homes are built in our IDEA shop by our deaf carpenters. We are not able to go down to a Home Depot and buy the lumber. Instead we have to order the lumber rough cut by chainsaw and then bring it into our shop to mill it down to ship-lap siding and studs. It is a very labor and equipment intensive effort. The homes are then either built in knockdown form or totally assembled and delivered to the building site on a trailer or truck.
Christmas Gifts
Gifts for Bohol and Leyte in Christmas 2011
Bohol Deaf Festival
DEAF FESTIVAL BOHOL, PHILIPPINES It has been three years since the last Bohol Deaf Festival. On December 6 & 7 deaf children and adults from all over the island made their way to the Bohol Deaf Academy for the two days of fun, games, presentations and fellowship. For many of the youngsters this was the first time for them to …
“So The Whole World Will Hear”
Starkey Hearing Foundation and IDEA Philippines Team Up To Provide Hearing Aids to Bohol December six and seven were a whirlwind couple of days at IDEA’s Dao Diamond Hotel in Tagbilaran City, Bohol. The six member Starkey Hearing Foundation audiology team from the States plus nine audiology student volunteers from the University of Santo Tomas flew into Tagbilaran, …