Our Mission: “Connecting Professionals Of All Fields With The Children Of Africa”
Santanio Holmes speaks about his previous visit, “We teamed up with Pros for Africa (prosforafrica.com) and Starkey Hearing Foundation (starkeyhearingfoundation.org) and handed out 2,500 hearing aids to men women and children; fed 2,500 people; dug water wells; and handed out water straws to 500 kids. The poverty level there is unreal. The thing that impressed me the most was how appreciative they were for everything we did for them or gave them. It was definitely a touching experience.” This is the first of two expeditions that the foundation will be making this year. The expedition Holmes is currently a part of focuses on Ugandan and South Sudanese community clinics, medical schools, hospitals and continuing their work with the Saint Monica Girls School.
“The Starkey Hearing Foundation’s mission is to bring the gift of hearing to those in need that they may be able
to realize their full potential,” said Bill Austin, Starkey Hearing Foundation.
The Starkey Hearing Foundation’s Africa Hearing Mission is one of dozens of missions conducted each year
both domestically and internationally. All missions include the distribution of hearing aids and batteries, custom fittings, audio testing, and counseling on how to care for the devices. This is the Foundation’s third
mission to Africa in three years.
The Starkey Hearing Foundation is striving to change the social consciousness of hearing and hearing loss prevention. Hearing loss affects one in 10 Americans, and 63 million children worldwide, yet many do not have access to the hearing devices that can help correct that disability. Each year, the Foundation delivers more than 100,000 hearing aids through hearing missions in countries stretching from the U.S. to Vietnam. Since 2000, the Foundation has supplied nearly 500,000 hearing aids to people in need and is striving to achieve its goal of distributing over one million free hearing aids in this decade. In addition to giving the gift of hearing, the Foundation partners with Best Buy and the GRAMMY Foundation to promote ‘safe hearing’ and hearing loss prevention among teens and young people, through its national program, SoundMatters. For more information on the Starkey Hearing Foundation, visit www.starkeyhearingfoundation.org.
PFA is a volunteer-led, private operating 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization based in Oklahoma that encourages professionals of all fields to share what they know, have and create with the children of Africa. Formed in 2009 by Reggie and Rachelle Whitten through the Whitten-Newman Foundation, PFA has become a proud development partner of the Saint Monica Girls Schools led by Sister Rosemary Nyirumbe. PFA exists because of the generosity of working professionals, including practicing physicians, nurses, attorneys, engineers, accountants, designers, carpenters, entrepreneurs, educators … and even pre-professionals: college students! PROS FOR AFRICA is a 501(c)(3) non-profit that encourages professionals of all fields to share what they know, have and create with the children of Africa.
Way to go Santonio Holmes! We love the way you#giveback with Pros for Africa nad the Starkeys Foundation. Now it’s time to do your part, to find out how you #giveback to the Starkey Foundation please visit, www.starkeyhearingfoundation.org. For more information about Santino Holmes journey while in Africa, please visit http://twitter.com/santonio10 or http://www.facebook.com/santonioholmes.
