Christmas Gifts
Gifts for Bohol and Leyte in Christmas 2011
Gifts for Bohol and Leyte in Christmas 2011
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
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
Getting Ready for Christmas There are no evergreen trees on the island of Bohol in the Philippines so having a traditional Christmas tree is out of the question. This means that every year the kids up at IDEA’s Bohol Deaf Academy “build”a Christmas. This year they decided to use a native grass and bamboo as
Faith Chapel Volunteers from Billings, Montana transform abandoned building into a home for deaf children. Maasin City, Southern Leyte, Philippines, August 21, 2011 Hundreds of deaf children live in isolation in the mountains of Southern Leyte with no chance for an education because of distance and economics. There is only one practical solution to providing