Existing support for IHF and Naad has been provided, among others, by many well-wishers and donors.

A heartfelt thank you to everyone mentioned below; we value your contribution and your trust in us at Naad. We look forward to a long and continued relationship with each of you:

• The Rotary Club of Bombay for giving us wings
• Bernard Van Leer Foundation, Netherlands
• Mahalaxmi Temple Charities
• Babulnath Mandir Charities
• Dr. Milind Kirtane and Dr. Anand Shah & their respective team for their personalized care of our children, whom they operate on
• Mrs. Varsha Gathoo and her staff at the Ali Yavar Jung National Institute for the Hearing Handicapped
• Mr. R. Jalvi, Mr. Kambli, and Anuradha Bantwal
• M/s Graphic Devices for assisting us with the calibration of our equipment
• Mrs. Basavraj, Mr. Abraham and the staff at AIISH
• All manufacturers of hearing aids and their representatives who support our work: Siemens, Widex, Pinnacle, Phonak
• Cochlear, Australia and Pika Medical for their ongoing support
• All the pediatricians & ENT specialists of Mumbai city for their support of IHF’s infant hearing screening service
• Unicare Medisystems
• The family of Mr. Pravin Jhaveri for making infant screening possible
• All our volunteers who give so generously of their time to help us in our various activities
• Last but not the least the Trustees of I Hear Foundation who readily support and give us their inputs, suggestions and comments

Support us:

IHF’s program is intensive and expensive. It costs Rs. 63,000/- per year to educate a child at IHF’s early intervention programme Naad. A single cochlear implant can cost as much as Rs.800,000 (US $1700) and a good hearing-aid costs about Rs.25,000 (US $530). There are many families with us who simply cannot afford these costs. IHF tries to help them in every way possible including, in appropriate cases, with waivers of its already-low tuition fees.

IHF seeks donations:

• To maintain a common fund on which we can draw to get hearing-aids and equipment for parents who cannot afford them;
• To extend a hearing aid loaner facility to babies in need of assistance;
• To arrange for young children to be implanted with a cochlear implant or fitted with appropriate hearing aids;
• To meet part of our operational expenses;
• To improve and upgrade our facilities and increase our staff strength;
• To the corpus of I Hear Foundation so that it can expand its activities.
• To upgrade our library with books and puzzles for children

Your support will give children with a hearing loss the chance to listen and speak and communicate with confidence in a hearing world. Donations to I Hear Foundation are exempt from tax under Section 80G of the Income Tax Act, 1961.

A donation form can be is available for download in PDF format or as a zip file.

Volunteers

IHF is more than happy to take on volunteers at its Naad Centre. Our volunteers help us in:

• Fund raising
• Illustrating books for children
• Coordinating the Awareness program
• Preparing teaching material