During this trip we began FM Training for the staff and fitting of the FM devices. These are devices a child with a hearing aid can use in addition to their hearing aid to allow a child to hear the teacher clearer.

After finally getting my work permit I was able to leave and get to Fiji. I arrived in time for the annual wheelbarrow race and to see our partner organization Frank Hilton Organisation raise much needed funds for the all the work that they are doing.

Project Heaven has worked for many years conducting ear and eye screening in Fiji. The ENT in Fiji has asked for me to train some of their workers in full  diagnostic audiometry for them to be able to fully assess adult clients and expand the services available in their clinic.

This trip was an opportunity to conduct more parent and teacher training and making classroom visits for all the children who we have fitted with hearing aids in the Hilton Special School in Suva.

We began an ambitious screening project last May to assess all of the children in special schools in Fiji. We have also found several children with mild or moderate hearing losses who were previously classified as speech delayed or learning disabled.

We have completed all the screening visits to the special schools on the two main islands of Fiji and we are now in the process of fitting all the children who have a permanent hearing loss with hearing aids.