H.I.K.E Fund stands for Hearing Impaired Kids Equipment Fund. The purpose of The HIKE Fund (Canada) is to provide assistance for hearing impaired children while uniting Job's Daughters across the world in a common charitable cause. HIKE Fund (Canada) is a very special fund created in 1990 by the International Order of Job's Daughters to provide hearing and/or assistive listening devices to children or institutions in need. We are Kids Helping Kids. All donations to HIKE are tax deductable. To make a donation, contact any of our Bethels and we'd be glad to help. For more information or if you would like an application, please contact our Grant Coordinator - Lorraine Wood HIKE Success Stories! 2009 Josen from Abbotsford, BC Josen is 14 years old and lives in Abbotsford. He began wearing hearing aids at the age of 6 and still wears the same pair. Since he has started to do better in school, he has asked if he could have new hearing aids and understands that he is expected to wear them on a full time basis. HIKE awarded him $1298.00 in July 2009.
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Dominic from Surrey, BC
Dominic is a 6 year old boy who is in Grade 1. He lives with his great-grandma. Although they thought he had hearing problems by age 2 the long waiting lists for testing meant that it was not diagnosed until less than a year ago. He is presently wearing a set of hearing aids that are on loan. He was very excited when I called his grandma last week and the most important thing to him was that now he got to pick which colour his hearing aids were.
I thought it would be helpful to the daughters (and adults) that raise money for HIKE to hear a short quote from Dominic's grandma that explains what the gift of hearing has meant to Dominic: "The first week Dominic was wearing his loaner hearing aids I was walking him to school and he stopped in his tracks and asked me what that sound was. He was hearing birds sing for the very first time. It was wondrous to see the smile that lit up his face as he realized that birds can sing."
Danica from Richmond, BC
Danica is an 11 year old girl who lives with her mother. Danica plays lacrosse during the summer and is a hockey goalie during the winter months. At present, her hearing aids are not able to be worn while she plays sports due to sweating etc. so she has great difficulty hearing anything her coaches say. But the new pair that HIKE has awarded Danica will be a lot more durable and were developed specially for children that play sports. The new ones will also be compatible with the FM systerm that she uses at school. (These systems allow for amplification for the student while the teacher is wearing a headset.)
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