Charity Kenya | Kilmarnock Hearing Care Kilmarnock Hearing Centre

Kilmarnock Hearing Care and The Optical Factory provides hearing aids and prescription glasses to the children in Kenya.

Since 2009 Sean has been working in Kenya, helping conduct eye screening camps under the OSCR charity Sight Aid International and delivering prescription spectacles and eye medicine to school children and adults in various parts of Kenya. So far around 49,835 eye screenings have been carried out with 3470 pairs of glasses and medicines being delivered. Unfortunately the recent Covid 19 pandemic has put all the projects on hold, but thankfully things are getting back to normal and schools are being booked for eye screening.

49,835

For every eye test we do in East Kilbride, we will eye test a child in Kenya.

3,470

All of the glasses required will be made in our East Kilbride lab and shipped over to Kenya.

The Gift of Hearing

In the coming months The Optical Factory East Kilbride will commit to sponsoring eye tests for children in Kenya to match each eye test that is conducted in East Kilbride. More details will follow on this as the project develops.

January 2022 saw Sean undertake his first hearing screening project which was conducted at a Primary School for hearing impaired children in Machakos County, Kenya in conjunction with Kenya Society for the Deaf. 21 school children were screened with 10 children being fitted with hearing aids in February.

Sean hopes these hearing screening projects will be bi-annual and bring much needed hearing care to school children in Kenya.

We’ve developed a device that is called Audio Sun

We have entered a business competition in Scotland that offers grants and support to entrepreneurial companies and Scotland and we have made it to the final of this round, with the potential of winning up to £15,000 to help develop the product. I am currently trialling the device in Kenya as part of my hearing screening project that was done in February. We are testing the device up to June 2022 to monitor how it performs.

We are very excited to share with you that Audio Sun won £10,000 at the #EDGE19Awards with our device that will solar recharge 3 different types of hearing aid batteries, preventing the need for single use ones!

Giving the Gift of Hope

HELPING KENYAN CHILDREN HEAR FOR THE FIRST TIME

Sean Walls and Sight Aid International are working with Kenya Society for the Deaf to conduct hearing screening camps which will transform the lives of hundreds of children.