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Love Your Hearing Foundation

At New Zealand Hearing, we work hard to extend our services to all kiwis and our friends on neighbouring islands through the Love Your Hearing Foundation. With over a decade of commitment to the Cook Islands, our humanitarian trips bring essential hearing services to those with little to no access to audiological care.

Our audiologists carefully pack and travel with the necessary equipment, seeing hundreds of patients during these short trips – conducting hearing tests, identifying candidates for surgery, and fitting donated hearing aids. For many, the experience is life-changing when they can finally hear their families again. The emotional reactions from patients – often waiting patiently for care – are truly heartwarming.

Our efforts are made possible by the generosity of New Zealanders who donate hearing aids and support our fundraising initiatives. The long-term goal of the foundation is to empower local healthcare workers with audiology skills, ensuring communities can continue to thrive with ongoing access to hearing care.

Cook Islands 2024

Brenna Sincock, Lisa Keen, and Carolyn Till travelled to the Cook Islands, where, in the space of two weeks, they helped 450 patients (271 adults and 179 children) and fitted 91 hearing aids! Read more >

Get Involved

Want to join our effort? We can't thank you enough! 

Donate hearing aids

Have you recently upgraded your hearing aids and not sure what to do with your previous, yet still functioning, hearing aids? Send them our way! We partner with many manufacturers to help us refurbish and renew devices so they can be used in some capacity on our humanitarian trips. Contact us to learn more!

Donate funds

For every dollar donated, New Zealand Hearing matches the donation amount. Financial donations help us fund new hearing devices for our programme and our humanitarian trips to the Cook Islands. Contact us to learn more and donate today!

Support our events

Throughout the year, our New Zealand Hearing clinics sponsor events that directly benefit the Love Your Hearing Foundation. Your support at these events is the biggest compliment you can give us, the more support we get, the more we can give back.

New Zealand,
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And give yourself a pat on the back for being proactive